How about Jim (James)?

[TartyMcFarty]

DD is named along similar lines - classic full name, old-fashioned nn.

Just wondering, like.

Lovely, a great choice :) Nice to see Jim instead of Jamie for a change too.

Love it! :)

My hubby's is a jim - don't see many these days but I like

I love it! I have a James who I wanted to be a Jim but DH didn't like it so James is the name that stuck.

I really like it. My Grandad was James and went by the NN Jim - he was lovely :) I have a friend with a James who is 14yo and he goes by the NN Jimmy, which is softer than Jim and I also really like

Love it. I want DC 3 to be James known as Jim but DH ( who is James known as Jamie) won't have a bar of it.

Oh, I'm glad it's not gone down like a lead balloon. We also have a good friend called Jimmy, and it would be nice in that respect too.

Love James, like Jamie, but dislike Jim / Jimmy! Just sounds too 'old', sorry.

James is nice.Jim definitely isn't.

I'd say that Jim Morrison was verrrrrrry nice ...

But definitely not Jim Bowen ... ?lol!?

I really don't like Jamie on the other hand.

Tarty it seems that the general concensus is that Jim is ace. It's no different to other 'old man' names like Archie, Stan, Alfie, etc that are enjoying a renaissance right now.

It's not like you'd have Jim Surname on his birth certificate: it's going to be James Surname. So even if he HATES Jim, that's not his name!

If you want James and want to NN him Jim, go for it, kid! x

Like Jim/Jimmy, dislike Jamie. I never think Jamie is a proper name for a grown man.

DS is called James, nn Jamie. Before he was born I hated the name Jim/Jimmy and was adamant that nobody was to call him that Now I quite like it, DD's pet name for him is Jimmy and I think it's really cute.

James-love
Jamie- love
Jim -love
Jimmy- strong dislike

Lovely lovely lovely.

My Granpa was a James/Jim. I also know at least 4 others; one my mum's generation, one my generation, one the teenaged child of a friend and a baby.

Love James! My Grandad was James, and I loved him to bits, such a wonderful person to know. So much so, I gave DS his name as a middle name
Also like Jimmy as a NN for a little boy and Jim for a grown up.

(Mmmm Jimmy Clay from Doctors sorry - off topic!)

I have a Jamie and we sometimes call him Jim Bob as a nickname even though I really dont like Jim. Dh started it and now even I find myself saying it sometimes, but mostly its just Jamie :) (And his second name isnt even Robert ! )

Love James I have one sometimes James sometimes Jamie and jim to his daddy.

Lovely

Right, this is my front-runner at the moment. Now for a middle name ...

William?
George?

Any family names you could use? I love a family name, me.

I love Jim too