Alexander, Daniel, Dominic, Nicholas, Rory or Sebastian?

[MrsBloop]

Would like opinions on our shortlist of boy's names for DC2 (not sure if girl or boy) DC1 is called Thomas.

We like classic names, and not put off by popularity on ONS lists etc, and don't want anything too 'trendy' that will date. We also have a bit of a difficult surname (short, harsh and a noun) which rules out some other possibilities.

Alexander - I love, but not keen on nn Alex. Is this inevitable?

Daniel - DH's favourite, I think it is ok but I don't love it

Dominic - I like, DH not so keen

Nicholas - I also really like this, and like Nicky as a nn

Rory - think may be too trendy?

Sebastian - may be too 'posh' for us. I really like it, just don't know if I see it as my child's name IYSWIM?

Thanks!

Well from your short list both Alexander and Nicholas work very well with Daniel as a middle name or you could even go for Nicholas Daniel Alexander Bloggs which sounds great imo

I have a Nicholas and a Rory, so I say go for either of those!

Nicholas gets my vote (that's what we called DS) ;-) - we call him Nicky (when he was younger) or Nic. Will be great whatever he grows up to do. There is only one other Nicholas in a school of 300+.

Do you shorten Thomas's name at all? Tom and Nicky sounds nice :)

I like both your others but am not as keen on their nns.

I have an Alexander so am biased It's been shortened it to Alex from the day he was born and that's what he prefers. We also use Al, Xander and Xand at home. He's uni age now but got dubbed 'sexy Lexi' by the girls at school so while Alex isn't inevitable as a nn you may need to be prepared for something unforseeably creative (although that probably goes for any name).

I'm probably not much help

We have an Alexander too, and he has always been Alexander or Xander to us, never Alex. However I have to say Alex is pretty much inevitable at school I'm afriad, unless your ds will have a forceful personality and the will to correct every single person every single time. Our ds gets called Alex by most of his friends and doesn't seem to mind it at all. I really dislike Alex personally but I accepted the fact when we named him that he might well choose to use it for himself at some point.

I have an Alexander who is known as Ally. He dislikes Alex and corrects people if they call him it. So not inevitable

Dominic was his 'other' name but dh went for Alexander

I think they're all nice names but the ones I like best are Alexander and Daniel.