Help me with my boys shortlist please :)

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Roman/Rowan
Thomas
Henry
Zachary
Theodore
Dominic
Jude
Joshua
Arthur

These are the ones we both like, some of them I'm not massively keen on like Joshua, Arthur and Thomas are more of DPs choice. My favourites are Dominic, Jude, Zachary and Theodore.

Firstly, which one do you prefer? What else might I like?

Our surname is Lee, so what middle names would go well with each one? I quite like hippyish names but nothing too extreme as DP will hate it!

Arthur

I like Jude, but Jude Lee doesn't work terribly well imho.

My favourite name on the list is Rowan and the only one I really don't like is Henry.

Row is lovely. I like most of your list.

*Rowan

Henry Lee is a macabre song by Nick Cave! I like Arthur :)

I think Lee is a tricky surname as it could become an adverb!

Zach Lee
Theo Lee
Josh Lee

Mmmmm......

Jonathan
Benjamin
Sebastian
Dominic but Dom Lee does not work for me.

It's a terrible surname isn't it! That's why I really feel most names need a middle name to balance it out, we do actually use the middle name of DS as well so it's not a pointless thing iykwim.

Not Thomas.

I like Jude and Theodore

I prefer Rowan or Zachary.

I like Theodore, Rowan and Arthur. Any combination of those would be lovely and balance out your surname.

Henry

I love Rowan
Dislike Zachary (and there's lots about at the moment)
Quite like Dominic, but nn Nick rather than Dom
Pretty ambivalent about the rest

I'd pair Rowan with something a lot more mainstream, Oliver or James maybe.

Rowan Oliver Lee sounds nice.

I like Rowan best.

Rowan is good but I like it as a girls name! Roman is lovely!

Rowanlee sounds like an adverb to me!

David
Ryan
Matthew

Thomas Lee is too Tommy Lee.

My favourites are Henry, Dominic and Arthur.

We have very similar short lists!
Zachary, Dominic, & Theodore are in my top 5. If I knew which I liked best I'd be a happy bunny
Theodore probably goes best with Lee?
The other two in my top 5 which you may well like are Diggory & Nicholas.

With a surname Lee, i'd suggest Robert

I've got a Gabriel/Gabe. My daughter has a friend called Arthur and I think it's v sweet. From your list I like Theodore best. It's a name I would def choose myself - although I've now had my last. I did consider Zachary/Zach for one of mine (who turned out to be a girl) though and still like it and quite like Dominic/Dom.

Roman/Rowan -love Rowan
Thomas- like
Henry- ok
Zachary - ok
Theodore - ok
Dominic - don't like
Jude - love
Joshua- don't like
Arthur- love

What about:-
Heath
Ralph/Rafe
Toby
Louis
Elijah

Forget Louis with Lee

Thanks everyone. I do feel it's really tricky with the surname, can't decide whether to just ignore the adverb problem and go for one of the names I like more, or choose something I don't like quite as much because it doesn't sound like an adverb.

Hadn't thought of Heath but I do quite like that, again not sure how Heath Lee would flow. A lot of the other names suggested have been used by those close to us.

Rowan Oliver Lee is lovely :)

Any other thoughts on middle names?