Whose name choice is best? Please help us pick a name!

I really like Max - also goes best with Edward/Teddy. Very classic. I like Zachary too.

I would personally avoid Luca without an Italian connection.

Michael is also classic (my brother's name)

Andrew, Nicholas (Nick), Peter, Robert

Love the name you gave your older son Classic is always best

To ho with Edward/Teddy I like

Alexander/Zander
Christian/Kit
Rory
Guy
Laurence/Laurie
Nathaniel/Nate
Peter

Alexander - Lex, Alex, zander,

Gregory

Raymond - Ray

@Greytminds Oh I think Rory is lovely - but whatever you choose I am sure will be great - all very best to you and good luck and wishes for new DS .

We’re having the same discussion in our house - DS1 due in a few weeks - and have a very similar list. I am of Italian heritage so quite keen for an Italian name but DH less so. I like Angelo and Emilio. Nathaniel, Luca, Emerson, Jed and Rory are the others on my shortlist.

Ds's friends include , Sam ,Tom , Will , William , John , Jonny , Freddie , Felix , Edward , Harry , Jasper , Hugo , Julian , Ben , Miles , - all nice names I think. Not "out there . but nice I think - others will have other opinions,

I love Duncan and would have called my son Guy if some SIL had mentioned gorillas Also love Hamish. & Giles has a ring to it,

Apart from that my great friend's BIL has called their son Luca - I just think it is a popular name nowadays ( & no problem with that ) but not necessarily for just Italian related people,,

@PlainJane1000

They aren’t as weird as you might think - they are very definitely not wacky names. Not saying the exact ones as outing, but here are some names that are currently outside the top 1000 in the UK as examples. I bet you’ve heard them all.

Marie, Nicola, Dora, Barbara, Kathleen, Shannon, Caroline, Susie, Beth
Forest, Edgar, Carl, Harold, Jeffery, Julius, Phillip, Maurice, Terry.

Duncan and Giles are outside the top 1500, are are Jodie and Katrina.

Hugo/Huey?
Asher/Ash?

Alexander nn Alex
Benjamin numerous nn
Daniel - underused IMO

That’s a really nice set of names! Except for Zachary, I love them all & be happy to name my son any of those! From all of them, I’d pick Jude! :)

Love all of the names except Jude.

Of your names, Max, by far the best.

Robert is a great name. Teddy and Rob.
Teddy and Hal. Edward and Henry.

Conrad if you want less popular.

Christopher / nn Kit ? Although as I have said before I would choose John for a 2nd DS ( sadly not going to happen ) but I do think Johnny is lovely.

@LouNatics I'm dying to know what your outside top 1000 names are!

Ps. My Jude is a boy, very alpha one too.

I have a Jude. It gets lots of compliments.

I don't think Max or Luca are naughty names. Also only know one Luca who is 12. Don't teach any myself. I like all the names suggested but do sympathise with dh clashes. Only suggestion is that if you wait till after the birth dh will be much more open to 'your' names. This happened to us!

How about Oliver/ Ollie?

Out of your choices I’d go Max

Henry goes well with Edward

Jude is by far the best name😬

Putting bias aside, Teddy and Max also sound nice.

Perhaps you haven't found the name yet if you still have separate lists of names you like.

Thomas
Louis
Spencer
Jacob

I like all of your choices. I'd go for Jude, followed by Leo then Zachary I think. Not keen on Max - a bit dull, and Luca seems quite trendy and I know a couple. How about Leon, Seth, Joel, Sebastian (Seb)?

Both your lists have some great names on them and I don't think any are ones I'd describe as overused. Given Edward has lots of nickname options, perhaps another name with multiple shortenings might work for both of you?

Albert (Albie, Bert/ie)
Alfred (Alf/ie, Fred/die)
Gabriel (Gaby, Gabe, Gabs)
James (Jamie, Jim, Jimmy)
Jonathan (John/Jon, Johnny, Jona)
Nathaniel (Nat, Nate, Nathan, Natty)
William (Billy, Bill, Will, Liam)

Your styles don’t look that different as per PP.

Max - Maxwell?
Luca - Lucas?
Zachary - Zachariah?

Jude is definitely a boys name and does it matter if some people think it sounds feminine? Lots of females around called Max and Luca too.

Edward is pretty classic but also very popular. It’s top-25 on its own but with Teddy also in the top 30, if you combined the two it’s a top-5 name, more popular than Leo (even more I imagine if you added in Eddie, Eddy, Teddie, Ed and Ted)

If you wanted something a little less popular so you are less likely to run into one as a teacher - perhaps go outside the top 100? Tobias, Dominic, Robert, Nathaniel, Wilfred, Christopher, Owen, Lewis, Luke.

Or from outside the top 250? Franklin, Fletcher, Nicolas, Barnaby, Douglas, Hector, Casper, Nico.

I also teach and I chose names from outside the top 1000 for all my DC.