Baby due in 9 days. No name but a sort of short list. Vote please!

[Artichook]

This is our first boy and we are finding boys' names impossible. Things are made harder by the fact our DCs also want a say. Here is our short list with my thoughts:

Freddie (Frederick or Wilfred): a family name. DH and the kids like it, I'm worried its a bit comic.

Arthur: DH's fav. The nicknames of Artie and Art make me think of an ageing US door to door salesman. Also worried this is a very 2013 name.

Felix: my fav and the DCs love but DH says its wimpy. He also points out I shorten all names and there is no good nn for Felix.

Max (Maximillian): DCs' fav. I like. DH says its a dig's name.

Sacha (Alexander): I love, DCs cry at the thought as say its too feminine.

Jacob: safe, fine, nobody objects. I'm not terribly keen on Jake though.

I know a Freddie about 6 yrs old. Very cute, definitely not a comic name.

Frederick/Freddie - very nice
Arthur - too old man
Felix - great
Maximilian - quite nice but a bit faddy and OTT
Sacha - horrible and sounds like a girl's name
Alexander (Alex) - like
Jacob - OK
Jude - feminine

Jude feminine?

Hi Artichook, my DS is Freddie, short for Alfred - I'm completely in love with the name and think it really suits him :)

Have you thought of Xander for Alexander?

Btw some of you have mentioned Freddie Starr - I give you Fred West! Bad associations come and go; there are plenty of serial killers with names out there ;)

I like Jacob. No need to shorten it, but if you wanted to it could always be Jay? Or Freddie.

ItsallisnowaFeegle yes, I know Jude is a male name, e.g. Jude in the Bible, but it still sounds feminine to me for some reason! Maybe because I knew a Judith whose nickname was Jude.

I like Jacob the best. Or Jack.

My Jude is 100% pure, solid, manly boy thermals

Max is my favourite.

I think they are all nice names so well done. I particularly like Wilfred... he could then be nicknames Will or Fred/ Freddy etc. but it's nice and not too long in his own right. There won't be so many Wilfred's at school with him (I know one girl who called her son Wilfred who is now about 3 years old). It might be nice for him to stand out a bit by name, but it's still classic and traditional.

Frederick (Freddie) and Arthur are lovely, but very popular at the moment and your son will be one of many at school etc.

Jacob, Max, Jack are all nice. Not my fav's, but that's personal choice. Agaian, there will always be a lot of these around at the moment.

Sacha personally, I agree, sounds girly.

Your DH feels strongly about Max and Felix, pity, personally I'd go for Alexander. You can call him Sacha or by whatever name you want when he's in your arms.

I love Freddie. I want to call my ds Freddie but dh won't have it!

My top favourites are Freddie for Frederic (I like it without the final k, the French way) and X/Zander for Alexander (but you run the risk of Alex being adoted later by his school mates), followed by Jacob, Max and Arthur. Don't really like Felix.

Alec is also nice for Alexander, and less often heard than Alex (at least south of the border).