middle name for oliver

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We have named our baby boy oliver, but are undecided on his middle name.
We quite like

Oliver jack
Oliver James
Oliver harry

Particularly Oliver harry.

Any ideas on similar style middle names, ad these are thtere ones that we keep going back to.
We go to register the birth soon so really need to decide!

My Oliver is Oliver Alfie but he gets called Ollie 99% of the time.

Oliver Thomas

What's your surname start with? Ours is a k, so we chose a middlename beginning with an a so his initials are oak.

Other good middle names are names of friends.

How about Alexander, Lewis, Benedict, Robert, Boris?

Oliver Charles
Oliver Ethan
Oliver Gregory
Oliver Nicholas
Oliver William
Oliver Adam
Oliver Daniel
Oliver Maximilian
Oliver Ryan
Oliver Matthew
Oliver Felix
Oliver Jacob
Oliver Zachary
Oliver Mark

Oliver Samuel
Oliver Nathan/Nathaniel
Oliver Aidan

Oliver James flows really well.

My cats name is Oliver and his middle name is Beast. Because he is a beast. (yes my cats have middle names)

My friend has an Oliver Jack and I've always thought the names sounded lovely together .

Oliver Harry is nice but doesn't seem to flow quite so well.

Personally, I see James as a bit of a "blah" name. Bland and uninteresting. I know there are many, many people who would disagree with me though!

Oliver is a great name but please, please, please pick something a bit more distinctive/unusual for his midlde name!

Stellan

Why? Not everyone has to be a speshul snowflake you know. All these 'Distinctive' and 'Unusual' names end up being anything but.

Uhm, why Stellan???

DS was the only Oliver in his entire 320-pupil primary school.

And he did not have to have a special-snowflake-unique name in order to 'stand out'.

I can't stand this parental "If I pick a unique / wacky / made-up name my child will stand out and be noticed. Yup, they may be, but not always for the right reasons...

DS is Oliver Martijn. Martijn being Dutch as DS is half Dutch.
His best pal is Oliver James.

From your list I like Oliver James the most, it has a nice ring to it

As I said, Oliver is a great name but, speaking as someone with a comparably popular name among my age group, I like having a less common middle name as a fallback. Just gives you a bit of flexibility. That's all I meant.

I didn't mean that you ought to pick something ridiculous. Oliver is the no. 1 boys' name (8,427 boys) and Ollie is in the top 100 too (1,130). As over 1,000 more boys were named Oliver in 2010 than the next most popular name (Jack), I would want to hedge my bets by selecting a less common middle name. This perhaps only strictly necessary if you have a particularly common surname; I was at university with two 'Jane Bloggs' who had to use their middle names on correspondence etc.

Oliver is not just popular - it is overwhelmingly so compared to its peers - and you might be luck and your son be the only one in his class - brilliant! - but just in case, why not pick something outside the top 50 for his middle name? He might want to use it in the future.

Or you could just, you know, pick what you think sounds nice and not care about being individual and special, which is without a doubt the stupidest reason to pick a persons name ever.

Every Oliver I've ever known has had James as a middle name.

Ours is Oliver Benjamin

Oliver is quite a popular name so maybe you should choose something classic but more unusual as a middle name.
What about
Oliver Wilfred
Oliver Frederick
Oliver Archer
Oliver Albert
Oliver Monty
Oliver Finn
Oliver Percy
Oliver Edwin
Oliver Arthur
Oliver Ernest
Oliver Herbert
Oliver Theodore
Oliver Francis

Out of your choices i like Oliver Harry

am i the only one with momentary confusion whenever seeing/hearing "oliver james"? my brain always wants to rearrange it to "jamie oliver".

Ha, I never noticed that. Now I constantly will :P

John

Must be a regional thing this popularity with the name Oliver. There is only one Oliver in ds's school and he is in year 5.None in the nursery either.

I like the name Oliver and I think the one on year 5 is Oliver Louis.

I know an Oliver Joseph. He is known as Ollie.

I love all the more classic suggestions sugarspice has made up the thread, especially Archer. I also think Oliver Albert sounds quite nice.

Agree on perhaps it being a regional thing - I know of one Oliver and he's my cousin, there are none in my son's nursery and my eldest is 7 and has never been in a class with an Oliver, either. I think it's a lovely name :o

Oliver is without a doubt the most common boys name at DS2's school (well in his year and the surrounding years anyway). Who cares though? If you love the name then use the name - far better to have a popular but solid name than a unique but ridiculous one .

DS is 2 and although we socialise quite a bit I have never come across an Oliver. Not once.

I know 3 Milos, 4 Dylans and more Oscars than you could shake a very long stick at but no Olivers at all.

Please don't call him Oliver James though. It puts me in mind of that slightly creepy pop psychologist...

Jack and Harry are nicknames more than actual names, to my ear. I don't think they work as middle names. And Oliver James makes me think of Jamie Oliver too..

I like Oliver Henry and Oliver Benedict suggestions.

How about
Oliver Patrick
Oliver Michael
Oliver Dominic
Oliver David
Oliver Isaac
Oliver Edward
Oliver Anthony