Middle name to match Moriarty?

[mrsHawk1ns]

Our DS1 is called Harry Moriarty, and we are expecting DS2 but fear we have peaked too soon with Moriarty as his middle name as we now can't think of anything equally "different" uncommon, or on a par with Moriarty as DS2's middle name. I know I'm not helping by not revealing the 1st name we've chosen for DS2 but am a bit precious about it & haven't told family yet. So, going on this crappy post, has anyone got any suggestions?? (no, it wasn't through our love of Sherlock Holmes!)

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Montgomery
Munro

Thank you, all of these are pure gorgeous and am sat with DH and a packet of biscuits to try them out!

OP do keep us up to date! :)

Aloysius
Dante
Mercutio

I love the Endeavour suggestion.

What about Ptolemy?

Hercules
Rumple
Jeremiah
Patrick
Martin
Steven
Morris
Dennis
Kerry where the surname comes from?
Good luck

Banquo
Horatio
Kingsley
Balthazar
Kermit
Homer
Tiberius
Isidore
Ludovic
Zebulon
Zebidee
Oberon
Stanislav

Mortdecai
Mortimer
Justice
Byron
Fitzgerald

I've always quite fancied Malone as a middle name. or Danger!

Nothing to add but Harry Moriarty is such a brilliant name! Please let us know what you decide for DS2, I'm sure it will be genius.

We also have a DS1 and expecting DS2 in Feb, chosen a name but looking at this thread is causing me to waver a bit

Blennerhassett?
It was originally an English name but the aristocratic Blennerhassett family died out in England and the name is now closely associated with Kerry, one of the Blennerhassetts having been granted lands there during the Elizabethan Plantation of Munster. There is a hamlet called Blennerville in Kerry that was founded by one of the landowning Blennerhassetts a few hundred years ago..

Caspian
Artemis
Aslan
Torrin
Troy
Spartacus
Horatio

You guys are truly awesome, I'm deeply in love with Rafferty at the moment, have always loved Benedict but felt it just a bit too obvious alongside Moriarty! and thanks you to everyone who complimented PFB's name I was expecting some flaming but you've all been lovely!

also my Dad is convinced we should use Horatio as the first name! lol love that too

Macavity?

Balonz?

Are people suggesting Rafferty because of the Baker Street thing?

I love Harry Moriarty too.

Kniphof
Schlafrock
Mendel
Geronimo
Chesterfield
Columbus
Niagara
Ladysmith
Vulcan
Albedo
Colquhoun
Quercus
Ilex
Coriolis

You could also go with a 'brothers who have both represented their countries in Rugby Union' theme (Richard and Paul Moriarty, both played for Wales) and call him Hastings (Gavin and Scott Hastings, both played for Scotland).

You'd also kind of continue with the crime thriller vibe, as Captain Hastings was of course Poirot's loyal sidekick.

Gauntlett?

Stanford
Buzzby
Edgar
Othello
Merlin
Casper

mathanxiety there's also a village on the edge of the Lake District called Blennerhassett - I've got friends that live there and have always thought it was a splendid name. Never realised it was also the name of people as well as a village!

That makes sense as the original Blennerhassets of historical note came from Cumberland.

and thanks you to everyone who complimented PFB's name I was expecting some flaming but you've all been lovely!

I suspect that the sheer normalness of Harry coupled with Moriarty makes it an awesome name. If perhaps your ds1 was called Sherlock Moriarty, mn folk might have reacted generally differently. Although one can't -ironically- ever hate Moriarty as a name.
Also, it's been on my list, together with Mycroft, for years before the new wave of sherlockians, so I'm partial anyway.