My List Is Too Boring!

[Dovahkiin]

DH and I have whittled down our list to a core of good, 'solid' names. Just looking at it now has made me weep with boredom, however. I'm an historian, DH is a scientist so you'd have thought we could have come up with something more inspirational than...

Edward
William
Matthew
Alexander

What do you think? It needs to go with David as a middle name.

What about Edwin rather than Edward - more interesting

I love William! It has loads of great nn. Edward is ok. Never like Matthew. Alexander is fine too!
How about

Samuel, Gregory, Jasper, Patrick, David as a fn, Michael, Quentin, Oscar, Clarence, Jonathan, Marcus, Benjamin, Hector, Victor, James, Edwin, Franklin, Walter, Timothy, Jeremy, Thomas, Stephen, Leonard, Robin, Bertram?

Or of course, the king of names, Duncan.
Out of your list I can't see any I don't like. I am more of a traditional name person rather than being modern. Yours are good strong proper names.
Obviously Duncan is the best.

Thank you ladies! I really do like names individually, think it was just that the cumulative effect was a bit dull. Liking Edwin as a suggestion and returning to my love of Wiliam. Can't do Duncan - I just see a guy being stabbed to death in a medieval chamber...

I love Matthew. Also love Matteo and Matthias if you want to jazz things up a bit. Matteo has the lovely shortening of Teo, which I think is gorgeous.

Another vote for Matteo

DH would tell you boring is good, he has a daft second name.
Beginning of each year they had to give their full names for the register. Every year he got a few weeks of annoying comments.

My names are very dull, mostly I am grateful.

I'm probably going with David as a first name, and I feel as uninspired as you seem to be. Have you considered Rowan? It's a name I'm toying with.

I really like Rowan as a name, I just once taught a particularly dim one so that's cursed it for me forever. I love David, it was my dad's name but DH is reluctant to have it as a first name so having to compromise.
Would really like to have some Polish influence as well but the only name that really works in both languages is Adam and that was one of DH's less reputable friends at uni...

Maxim?

Isaac David

Isaac means 'he will laugh' and David means 'beloved'.

Altogether the most positive name ever!

But I also like Jonte - though I have no idea what it means. You could always go for Jonathan David and shorten to Jonte.

James?

I think all 4 are lovely-strong somehow, and traditional.

Those names aren't boring. Love Alexander and William.

Not boring at all, I like all of them, and I like Edwin too.

I think all of your names are lovely strong, classic names. All of them have nn possibilities that are a bit more 'lively'
Edward - ed, eddie, ted, teddy
Alexander -Alex, Xander
Matthew - matt, Matty
William - will, bill, Billy, Liam
You have to go with a name you (both) love regardless of how they're viewed.