Isaac or Sebastian...?

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DH and I like both, but we each prefer a different one... which do you like best and why??

I'm a bit bored of the name isaac now. Love Sebastian - good strong sounding name.

Isaac, just seems cool

Seems to be alot of little Isaacs around at the moment. Sebastian is much better in my opinion. Solid name that will not date, yet never seems to get too popular.

Definitely Sebastian. But then I'm biased as that's my DS's name

difficult one
i love them both
I like sebastian a bit more cos I prefer the nn seb to zac

isaac. I think sebastian is pretentious.

both really nice - i love isaac but sebastian is lovely and not as popular

sorry not much help.......

I prefer Isaac, not keen on Seb as a nn (or Bass as my friend's DS is called)

I prefer Isaac (but am biased!) - incidentally he has NEVER been zac - more often than not he is "just" Isaac, but where we do shorten it we would call him Ike or Ikey.

Do very much like Sebastian though, Bass is a great nn - unfortunately DH disagrees - god knows what we are going to call DC3 if it turns out to be another boy!

Sebastian- it was my fantasy name for DS, but DH wasn't keen.

Love, love, love Sebastian

I like them equally - not much help, sorry!

I prefer Isaac. I really dislike the Seb in Sebastian as it reminds me of sebacious (oily). Also dislike Sebby.

Both lovely but prefer Isaac - and lots of sebastians around here at the moment.

Isaac, because I have a very cute one, and actually don't know any others. He also never has it shortened (yet), but when his little sister starts to talk, I think he will be Ike for her ease!

I know a iSaac spelt izak , but. Adore sebastian .

Isaac - means laughter, love that. And mine gets a wealth of nicknames and variants; Isa, Is, Itzac, Izzy - but have never had 'Zac'. Like Seb too, but you risk 'Baz'. And 'Bastian', which is too pretentious for words.

Interesting, thank you all!

I too love that Isaac means 'laughter', which is what makes me lean towards it I think. And I quite like all its nicknames!

However, Sebastian has a pretty good meaning too I think - 'revered, venerable'. And I love Seb. And it is a little bit more unusual.

Hmm, decisions...

I thought Sebastian meant 'man from Sebaste'? And speaking from experience it gets shortened to Seb, Sebi, Seba, Baas, Bassie, or Basty.

I like Isaac too. How about combining them? One as a first name, the other as a middle name, depending on your last name of course.

Thanks Baroness, these name books all say different things, so I don't know! :) I do like them combined (and either way they sound nice with surname), but as they are the only two boy names I like enough as first names (except for DS1's name of course), what if we have a DS3 in the future?! Soo you have a Sebastian?? What is his middle name?

My Sebastian's middle name is James. I don't tend to shorten his name, but DP's siblings for a while called him Sebby which is just naff. I think they only did it because they knew DP wouldn't like it. I really don't mind Seb as a shortening though.

i have an Isaac (almost 12) so was pretty much one of a kind for a few years - we never shorten it to Zac we shorten it to Iz or Izzy (as my nan pointed out thats short for isabelle - but suits him in a very non girly way) my dad always calls him Ike which he loves lol

Basty - a little too close to Bastard, no?

isaac is great unless your surname is Hunt.

I always wanted it on my list but DH said no.

isaac is great unless your surname is Hunt.

Or Kite....