A brother for Arthur?

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I really cannot think of any boys names. I would have liked to have chosen a name that had links to our family but I don't like any of the names our previous generations had (except Arthur, which I have already used!) also, I thought I should avoid anything too old man-ish in case it looks like a theme? Maybe I should go wildly modern with an oonike spelling ? We are welsh btw and baby will have a welsh middle name but I have lots of those that I like.
Help!!!

Henry, Edward (nn Ned, Ted, Ed), George (my personal favourite to go with Arthur. Don't think they're too old man-ish.

Other possibilities that I'm not so keen on but you may like - Milo, Jasper, Casper.

I do like George but I already called the cat that, plus worried about the whole prince George effect?

Edward could work well.....

I have been thinking of James with nn Jim but can't picture a baby Jim....

Edward was the first name that came to mind

James is lovely and goes well with Arthur. I have never heard it be shortened to Jim, it's great as it is.

Conrad

James was the first name to come to me.
William, Charles (nn Charlie), Reggie, Albert if you don't mind both names beginning with A.

Sam?

Bill?

I teach a little Bill and even though it almost seemed like too grown up a name for a 12 year old at first, it really, really suits him. I was just more used to Wills and the odd Billy. Good name!

Edwin (or Edwyn for the Welsh sp) or Selwyn sound like they might have hung out with a dashing ye olde Arthur...

Stanley.

My friend had a Jim, not a James & he was a gorgeous baby Jim!

James is a great name. Don't worry about nn's as they will evolve organically. The nn's we ended up calling our dc as babies had no obvious connection with their actual names!

Isn't James Arthur a singer?

How about Arthur & Quentin, or Arthur & Reuben?

littlemog my dad is bill he would be chuffed to bits. but my brother already has his name so I don't know if its now my brothers to pass on iyswim? on the other hand, my brother is 23 with zero thoughts about kids yet and might not care about these things!

Roger
Geoff
Derek
Brian
Cyril

The Arthur I know has brothers Frank & George.

Edward is nice.

Or how about:
Freddie
Victor
Maurice
Leo
Joseph
Robert

The Arthur I know has brothers Henry and Freddie.

David
Henry
Owen

How about

Peter
Ryan
Justin

Hector

There will be no "Prince George effect", any more than there was a "Prince William effect". The name George is already going through one of its cycles of popularity.

Now since you brought up the royal connection: Queen Victoria named one of her sons Arthur. His brothers were Albert, Alfred and Leopold.

The little Arthur I know has a brother William. I like the combination.