Henry as brother for Harry?

[madasabadger]

I know Harry is traditionally a nickname for Henry, but we have a Harry and wondering if naming a brother Henry would be daft... any other suggestions welcome - really wanted a not-weird name, but also not in top 20 names list.

Glad to see sense has prevailed.

I agree that John and Jack should never be used together either, I know someone who named their son Jack John, and I judge them.

I also judge people who use Jacob and James, as both names come from the same root Hebrew name, so in effect they are also the same name.

I like Hamish

An-urine? You're having a laugh, no?

Harry-Henry sibling set suggests a lack of imagination, and not treating the 2nd-born child as an individual; else an unexpected twin. My dad & his twin have names like Jamie & Jim.

It's not An-urine, pronounced An-urine.

It's An-eurin, pronunced An-eye-rin.

Astonished anyone other than a nasty nine year old would go to all the effort of mispronouncing it as the former.

But as there are plenty of nasty nine year olds in the world I am glad I didn't call my son that. Although it is a lovely name.

I'm not British so didn't grow up with such names as Aneurin. My fault entirely for coming across uneducated and dsft. Apologies.
I still stand by my opinion of WORST combo for twins' names.
Aneurin and Harry. Aneurin and another Welsh name but not Harry.

*daft
Also I am referring to my post a couple of 'pages' back.

I would not subject my child to a name which a nasty 9 yr old could so easily have fun with.

Every single name in the planet is capable of being used for teasing.

I'm surprised that Aneurin is being picked up as easily teasable

Anyone who's worried about nasty 9 year olds could spell the name Aneirin. that's the original spelling anyway.

The best know Aneirin is the 6th-7th century poet who composed the epic poem usually called the "Gododdin".

"I also judge people who use Jacob and James, as both names come from the same root Hebrew name, so in effect they are also the same name"

How many centuries ago did the two names diverge?

70 years ago, everybody was given a name from a short list of about twenty names

What? That's why all 70 year olds have one of 20 names

I know brothers called John and Jonathan.

That was a slight exaggeration pipbin, but you must understand the meaning. There were far fewer names used. To use an unusual name was more unusual. Now lots of names are unusual. Once upon a time the number one name was used by about 15% of people now the number one name is used by less than 1%. These aren't exact stats, btw, but it's not a secret that in the past far fewer names were used. Amusing to have that challenged with a !

Well in fairness you did present it as fact.
Anyway, out of interest here are the most popular names of about 70 years ago. www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2011/06/1944-to-2009.html
Interesting to see both Jack and John appear on the list.

I thought it was obviously a flippant exaggeration.