What is Edith's little brother called?

[DorothyBastard]

DH and I are expecting a boy. Our 2yo DD is Edith, often called Edie.

We both want a name that is instantly recognisable, that people know how to spell, but that there (hopefully) won't be another one in his class at school. We like quite old-fashioned, 'boring' sort of names; but not popular/classic. So not Peter, Thomas, etc.

DS's surname will be really long, double barrelled with five syllables total, so we don't want more than 2 syllable first names really. Surname starts with an N so ideally the name shouldn't end with an N to avoid them running into each other. I'd also like to avoid a name starting with E.

We also need to like a diminutive of the name.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[parabelle]

Charlie
Saul
Rowan

[Excitedforxmas]

Seth?

[Kantha]

Arthur
Gilbert/Gil/Bertie
Archie
Wilfred

[IAmPam]

Joseph

[FarelyKnuts]

Oscar

[DahliaBloom]

Frank
Lisle
Lev
Jake

[IAmPam]

Meant to add, could shorten Joseph to Joe

[ChippyMinton]

George
Chas (Charles)
Albie
John
Bill (William)

[Arsenic]

Arthur
Archibald
Henry
Freddie

[SwedishEdith]

Jesse

[cerealqueen]

Joe, Abe, Seth?

[LettuceLaughton]

Bernard
Herbert
Hector
Casper

[Buntystninians]

Howard
Leonard
Raymond

[Ludways]

My Nanna was Edith, her brothers were Robert, George and Herbert. I particularly like Herbert, I think you should go for it! Lol

[PenguinsandtheTantrumofDoom]

Peter is totally not popular! Though is fairly classic.

Leonard? Paul? Timothy? Simon?

Does it need to be 'grandad chic ' ?

[Fletcherl]

Frank

[AccidentalAnarchist]

My friend's Edith has a little brother called Isaac, often shortened to Ike :)

[Kim82]

Stanley was the first name that came to mind when I read your thread title.

[MyCatIsABiggerBastardThanYours]

Eric
Seth
Albert
Alfred
George
William

[Queenofknickers]

My great aunt was Edie and her brother was Walter

[Lambbone]

Edmund

I've got one of those.

[HarryLimeFoxtrot]

I was going to say Isaac too (ours seems to have adopted the nn Spike).

[GoldfishSpy]

John

[MairzyDoats]

Edie goes well with Gabe. Obv Gabriel has 3 syllables but I don't think it matters too much if he's generally known by the shortened version.