Thomas, Henry or smething else? Open to suggestions!!!

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Me and Dh are struggling to think of names for DS2. Any help would be much appreciated.

What is DS1 called?

Thomas is dull.

DS1 is Joseph. I don't mind dull to be honest . I like quite traditional names but like I said we hare open to any suggestions. Nothing we have found really fits and we're not loving any of the names we can think of!

What about family names (Granddads etc.) Even if it's not something you love, maybe someone will love you for using it, iyswim.

Thomas and Henry are indeed a little dull. They are also quite widely used already.

How about Dominic, Tristan, Quentin, Tobias, Isaac? But at the end of they we all have different tastes .

Thomas & Henry are both lovely names - can't go wrong with either. Yes, there's a chance there with be another in their class - but so what, the world won't end.

If you want the names to feel a bit more 'you' why not think about nicknames - imo, Tom is totally different to Tommy (who is totally different to Thom)...

How can Tom be different from Thom ?

Joseph is a fabulous name!

I suggest Edward. (Another fabulous name!)

Although Henry is a good name, and goes well with Joseph.

:-) I know theyre not really, but they feel different to me (but I may be influenced by Thom Yorke there!)

Edward
Gordon
James
Percy
Toby

Duck

Donald and Douglas?

Tom Scavo would like me to point out that he posted that. He is very proud of his Thomas the Tank Engine knowledge.

I prefer Henry to Thomas.

Some other traditional names to consider: Daniel, Samuel, Joshua, Theo, Stephen, Richard, Robert, Michael, Rupert, George, Timothy, Paul, Simon?

Richard is a good strong name, how about Peter or Andrew.

I like Henry and prefer it to Thomas.

How about Aidan, Samuel, Felix, Peter, David, George, William, Isaac, Gabriel, Aaron, Elias, Luke, Lawrence, Nicholas, Gregory, Oliver?

Alexander is a rather nice name, traditional, and with a variety of nicknames.

John
James
Stephen

I particularly like John - traditional, but less used at the moment than other 'classic' names. Having said that, I think that Thomas/Tom is a hard name to beat.

Not quite so keen on Henry, only because (if you don't use nn Harry) it often gets shortened to Hen which I don't like.

Love both, prefer Henry to Tom (even though I married a Tom).

My current favourites (incase they offer any inspiration) are Travis, Max, Tristan, Jesse and Harry

Oddboots - I thought exactly the same thing

Benjamin.

Joseph and Benjamin.

Henry, Henry, henry

Thanks for all the suggestions. I like Oliver but someone mentioned it was the most popular name at the minute which sort of made me think it wasn't exactly original. I do really like Henry but have had a lot of negative comments made about it though I am not sure that should put me off. I am really stuck now! We LOVED Joseph and it just seemed to FIT straight away. Haven't had that feeling this time round. :-(

Henry is a bit dull. Plus would always be Harry which I don't like.

Much prefer Thomas.

Edward goes really well with Joseoth though.

Joseph is the front runner for this bump, I adore it. Others on our list:

Nathaniel
Euan
Eli (and Elijah and Elias)

I like Alexander also (but DD is Sasha and they obviously don't work together!), and like Thomas. I don't mind Henry but I really don't like Harry so wouldn't use it personally.

My Henry is 5 and its never been shortened (apart from when DD2 was learning to speak and called him Henny which made him so cross ).

I think most people see Henry and Harry as completely seperate names now tbh.