Matthew

[Ilovekittyelise]

sorry, about my fourth thread on here as we have been going round in circles. previous contenders for ds2 (sams brother) have been robert and nathaniel. matthew has come out of the woodwork suddenly as a name we could grow to love, we think, feeling perhaps similarly to how we felt about samuel.

thoughts?

I think it's lovely. Do you mind Matt /Matty? He'l probably get called these.
Id love to use it but it's my Exs name so it's off the cards here :(

I love it!

V surprised at the lack of "meh, so dull, I prefer names that are individual - I named my son Gilgamesh" type response....

Lovely, traditional name that isn't overused.

Matthew is a great name. I've never met a Matt who wasn't a lovely guy.

Ok, I am clearly in the minority, but to go against the grain I think Matthew and Matt are very boring names. I don't know why, it is certainly not a horrible name, just to me seems a little dull, like John, or Robert or James.

Like everyone has said, it will go with Sam. Go for it if you love it, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.

I have a Matthew. My DH suggested it because he said every Matthew or Matt he had met was a great guy. I love it and glad we went for it. Robert and Stephen were other serious contenders. Classic names that aren't massively overused at the moment.

I love Matthew. I would use it myself but I had an old school friend called Matthew whose surname is also my married name, so it would feel a little weird to give my son an identical name!

Ha, DH is actually called Matthew Samuel, always loved the name Matthew, even before I met him.

I have a Matthew. It's a lovely classic name that will never raise any eyebrows but unusual enough in children at the moment that he's unlikely to be one of three in the class.
DS is never "Matty" though I expect he will be "Matt" eventually, which is fine.

I have a Matthew and love the name but was a little unsure when we chose it (thirteen years ago) as there were a couple of dodgy television presenters around called Matthew at the time. Fortunately they both seem to have pretty much disappeared now.