Arthur, Tristan, Alexander and similar, plus nicknames

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What other names might we like? I like Zachary, Leo, Sebastian, Ruben and Oliver, too, but they have all been vetoed. DH is German, so it needs to work in both languages.

Arthur - are there any other nns apart from Art/Arty?

Tristan - nn?

Alexander -- anything other than Alex?

We had all your suggested names on our final list and chose Arthur. He has no nicknames yet. I love the German pronounciation too, it's the same in French.

Alexander nn Sacha is also lovely.

I love Sebastian and Alexander, Quentin not so keen on. But DH doesn't like Sebastian as much. Alexander is still a possibility!

Finding names similar in pronunciation that we both like is proving harder than I thought. Sebastian, Reuben/Ruben, Alexander, Tristan and Thomas are my favourites of this group, but we're finding it hard to agree.

Arthur is DH's favourite and my second after Sebastian. Jonathan was what we had chosen for DD had she been a boy, but a close friend used it recently.

To answer the family names thing, I'm not really keen on using any of them. They include Claus, Adolf, Berthold, Siegfried and Jan.

Problem with Tristan is it gets mixed up with Dustin, Tristram, Justin, Christian. You have to be ready for that. Tris confused with Chris, too.
Seems like one of those polarising names, some say it's posh, some say it's Chav, I am sure we're neither.

Sacha for a boy makes me wince (sorry).

Frederick is ace, would go down well.

Three of those names you mention, Ilkll, I hate, and the other one is DH's name. You're right. I think it's too similar. Tristan is out.

I have a female family member nicknamed Sasha, so that wouldn't work for us anyway.

Maybe I should just hope this little bean is a girl! We have a girl's name all ready and waiting.

Ooooh what is your girls name?!

Sophie Charlotte - pronounced pretty similarly in German to English, but the e at the end of Charlotte sounds a bit like "uh". I know from here that Sophie is overused, but I don't know any babies here or in England who have been called it recently In fact, DD1's name is very popular at the moment too, apparently, but I decided about 15 years ago my first daughter would be called it! And no one is called it here no one can even bloody pronounce it, oops

Have you got anymore, Doodle?

Sorry, "any more". Children, I mean, not name ideas!

Th, ch etc really aren't the same usually. Most find it hard to say.

Theodore - tayo-dore
Charlotte - car-lott-a

Sophie charlotte is lovely though, as long as you like the other pronounciation

Thanks! We like it

DH assures me that no one will pronounce Charlotte like Carlotta though -- it's a different name, apparently! (I had a slight panic when I read that!)

I love the German pronunciation of Theodor, but I don't like Theo pronounced Tayo much. Reminds me of that singer.

Aaaah Sophie Charlotte is beautiful :-) Arthur was going to be Annie Rose if he was a girl, which I absolutely loved! (Clearly I like names beginning with the letter A!) We have lots of twins in my family and I was secretly hoping for boy girl twins which we could call Arthur and Annie- so cute!

Artie is our first baby , we will hopefully have another one in a couple of years though. Can't wait, babies are amazing!

(Arthur is called Arthur Rhys, so if I had given birth to twins, we would have had Annie Rose and Arthur Rhys...possibly a bit twee in retrospect!)

You'll never guess what, but DD's name is actually very similar to that, and if this one is a boy, we were thinking about calling him Arthur Richard, until we thought about using Jonathan as a middle name. So we would have had two AR's, too. I don't think it's twee, but it might have made life difficult when it came to naming bits of kit with initials or when the post started coming through?!

Oh really?! That's do coincidental! Yes naming uniform and getting post may have made things a bit tricky! Very cute though!

As "Tristan & Isolde" is an opera I think most would go with Tristan being posh. I know of boy & girl siblings with these names (not my kids). The Tristan is never abbreviated except by the father to Tris which Tristan abhors. Not aware of many mix-ups with similar sounding names but sometimes folk want to spell it with "-on" at the end instead.

I have a Tristan :) Therefore I think it is a lovely name :)