Names like Thomas

[hefner]

Help! I've just found out that my baby is a boy and I can't find a boys name I really love. If I tell you the types of names I quite like, I'm hoping someone can suggest other names I might like, or tell me what you think of my list so far. If it's any help, I would have chosen Rosa for a girl.

My current favourite is Thomas (Tom) but there seem to be loads of them about which might get a bit annoying.

I'm also considering:
Benjamin (Ben)
Adam
Joseph

Others I liked but discounted are:
Noah (doesn't work with surname)
Isaac (doesn't work with surname)
Sam (too similar to DH's name)
Seth (the th sound is a bit tricky for me to pronounce!)
Alex (not sure about it for some reason)

Love Joseph!
Adam & Ben are nice too; not as keen on Thomas.

Edward
James
Christian / Christopher
Matthew
Luke / Lucas / Luca
Nathaniel
Daniel
Zachary
Theo
Leo
Marcus
Aidan

I like Joseph too but I think DH is less keen. It's definitely a contender though. I like James and Daniel but have close family members with those names, and I like Luke/Lucas but DH hates them! Quite like Zachary too but our surname ends in a similar 'ary' sound so doesn't sound right together. Good ideas but still nothing I really love, any other suggestions?

We had Thomas on our list and the others we liked were:

William
Jack
Harry
Alex
George
Edward

All classics!

xander
michael
reece
ethan
david
jason
ben/benjamin
vincent/vinnie

Andrew
Gregory
Jonathan
Peter
Robert/Robin
Simon
Tobias

I have a Tommy and a Joseph (3 and 18 months) We know a few older ones as ds1&2 are 19 and 11, but not as many as you'd think

Benjamin,joseph and thomas were on my short list for my first boy and any other boys i hope to have.
I also liked James, Jacob and William. On my girl list was/is Rose too :-)

Reuben.

Jonah
Oliver
Timothy
John
William
Peter
Anthony

Biased but my fave combo is Ben Thomas

Thanks for all the replies, I like lots of these suggestions, especially the lists from Fairy and Mother. None of them are really jumping out as the perfect name, I think my favourites are Thomas, Ben and Joseph. The only slight problem is that I know people with a Thomas and a Joseph already - not close friends, I probably only see them a few times a year but we're likely to stay in touch long term. I know it doesn't really matter but it feels a bit like I'm copying other people rather than finding my own names!

Kevin
Oscar
Charlie
Brendan
Paul
Micah
Mark

Henry
Quentin
Dominic
Sebastian
William
Theodore

Edward
James
Oliver
Gordon
Toby

Bill and Ben (were they troublesome trucks?)
Harold the helicopter

Others that I like OP of a not dissimilar genre

Oscar
Philip
William

.....and there has to be a point where: Mark, Julian, Johnnie, Simon, etc., all come back.

I have a grown-up Joe & Sam (both have full Sunday names on birth certs)

but when they were still quite small wished I'd gone for eg Max or Leo or Jacob, which were rarer; there were 4 Sams in my Sam's Reception class, one a girl. or even (gasp) Peter or Michael - you can't go wrong with a classic British name

(Actually I had wanted Nicholas for Sam, but was outvoted)

Anyway Thomas/Tom is also a lovely classic name & really not one you can be accused of copying.

I forgot Henry!

you also forgot Percy, Donald & Douglas

not to mention Duck...

It was such a long time ago. But yes of course! Well done.

I read a book with a boy called Goose once - Duck doesn't quite ring right does it.

Thomas, Tom, Tommy, Tommy boy
All absolutely fantastic, you couldn't choose better
Toms are lovely children.

Just call him Thomas

Edward is Lovely

Luke, James, Philip, Gerard, Joshua, Martin, Vincent

But I you love Thomas - go for it

William
Edwin

I have a Thomas! Great name. I like Joseph too. I have only met one other Thomas at baby groups so didn't realise it was so popular.

I love the name Thomas (it's my brothers name). Can't say I know that many of them any more apart from him (I'm in East London), I love Joseph as well.

What about George or Charlie?

Windymill-bill and ben were the flower pot men

Robert
Edison
Gabriel
Ross
Evan