Wilfred?

[lisbapalea]

What's the consensus on Wilfred? Is it a bit Shoreditch try-hard? Could nickname be Will as well as Wilf?

Had always liked William, but DD is Katy, and think that Katy and William is a bit too Royal family-ish now. Also have had to ditch George for the same reason.

Other ideas, along with their reasons for veto are:

Jonathan - vetoed as Tomas will be the middle name, and John Tomas is slang for a penis. Thanks DH Lawrence for messing that one up for us...

Samuel - vetoed as when couple with Tomas and our surname the initials will be STD.

Frederick and Edward - Freddie/Eddie sound a bit duh-duh-duh-duh (think machine gunfire), when said with our surname.

Any other suggestions?

If baby is a girl, she will be Hannah Lucia (Lucia to be pronounced with a soft 'c', as that is Swedish), not sure if that helps give an idea as to our tastes - we definitely err on the side of classic / traditional (boring?).

All opinions and ideas gratefully received!

[EnglishRose1320]

I'd go for Edward or Henry personally

[jalapeno]

Any reason why you can't have Tomas as the first name? Seems odd to veto first names based on the middle name. I love Jonathan but wouldn't go with Tomas as a second name for the willy reason! How about an extra middle name to separate the two names e.g. Jonathan Edward Tomas Surname?

We are expecting a boy and our shortlist is essentially the same as yours . Leaning towards Luke at the moment but will wait to see him before making a decision.

Since we have similar tastes (except Alex, I have one of those!) how about Isaac, Gregory, Dominic or James?

[lisbapalea]

jalapeno I know what you mean about using Tomas as a first name, but it was my brother's name and he died just 2.5yrs ago so I feel it might be a bit too much to use his name as a first name - I don't want his family to feel that I am replacing him, but I definitely want to honour him which is why it's a 'must have' middle name. I am sure he'd be pleased he was causing me such a headache!

Good idea on the Jonathan though - if we're prepared to add a second middle name for Samuel then we should do the same for Jonathan!

Also forgot James from my revised list - if we forget the link to the d-list celebrity it could work!

I do like Gregory and Dominic though so thanks for those ideas! Not too keen on Isaac although I have no idea why not!!

[jalapeno]

Sorry to hear that Lisbapalea having his name as a middle name is lovely

I also like Samuel which I have now added to my list!

[WinteronPluto]

I think it's either Angus or Augustus. There might be other possibilities though.

[mootime]

We have a Wilfred and not trendy or try hard! He loves it, and we get lots of compliments on it. He goes by a mixture of Wilf and Wilfred.