Joseph, Joshua or Charles ("Charlie")

[MrsMichelRouxJr]

DS is due any day now and DH and I are still undecided on a name!!

Names we love but can't use:

James
Noah
William
Oliver
Henry
Jack

Our current short list is

Joseph
Joshua
Charles (but only on BC - day to day he'd be Charlie).

Any thoughts or other suggestions?

DD is Naomi. Surname begins with W.

Thank you!

I love Joseph, each one of my 3 dds was going to be one . I quite like Joshua too, I really am not a fan of Charlie - I just don't like it- no rhyme or reason.

Joseph or Joshua.

Joseph is very seasonal. Is that a good or bad thing? Apart from that, all nice names.

Joseph (Joe) most certainly! Don't like Joshua due to the fact the one i know is a little shit. Like Charles too. Hope all goes well and that you're home with your new little one for Xmas day!

All superb. Absolutely superb. You're a winner.

All nice. I love Joe.

Toby
Jacob
Benedict
Alexander

I like Joseph best. Not a huge fan of Charlie, sorry, (although I teach a Charlie who is wonderful!)

I really like Joseph - I don't think it is a seasonal name really; I certainly don't think of it being so whenever I hear the name through your the year.

I like Charlie too.

Love Joshua!

Joshua
I like Charles and Joseph but not a fan of the inevitable Charlie/Joe (y)
I like Joshua a lot and Josh/Joss as nn

Joseph or Joshua.
Definitely not Charlie.

Which NN doe you prefer? Joe (could be m/f). Josh or Charlie? Or choose a name like your daughters which is difficult to shorten!

Joseph is my favourite of the three, with either Joe or Joss as a nn.

Joseph! It's my ds's name so I'm biased but be warned he is always being called Joshua as that was in the top 5 boys names the year he was born!

Deffo Joseph
Like Charles, but not Charlie

Joseph definitely!

Like them all (and Naomi too) - DH is expecting his first grandchild who we've already been told will be Joseph so I'm maybe a bit biased... I would probably go for Joshua as it's been a favourite of mine for some time.
Hope he has a safe arrival and congratulations

Joseph.

Josh or Joshua seems like it would be more difficult to pronounce ahead of a W surname.

Hi, I'm Joseph Williams. fine
Hi, I'm Joshua Williams. Tongue rather tangles. Plus Josh sounds country bumpkin or lumberjack somehow.

Joseph

We got loads of compliments for it

And to my surprise no one calls him Joe (yet) as it doesn't suit him.

Another vote for Joseph, as long as you don't mind Joe - my ds is now 100% Joe at school which I'm not too happy about but it was inevitable I guess.

Joseph for sure and it goes nicely with Naomi, Joey is quite a cute nickname.

Charlie is ok.

Not keen on Joshua, been done to death in the last 15-20 years.

Have an irrational dislike of Joshua. Love Joseph and not all names get shortened I have a Daniel and no one has called him Dan yet and he is 8! So he won't necessarily get called Joe.

Joshua

Joseph