Arthur or George to go with existing boys?

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We have 2 sons, Edward and James

Son 3 is due shortly and we are agonising over George and Arthur.

George is the "safe" option and we like safe. Arthur is a bit more "out there" (by our standards!)

I worry that Edward, James and George sounds a bit "Thomas the Tank Engine" and that as a sibling set maybe "James, Edward and Arthur" is a bit more interesting.

We are really going back and forward on this one. I love both names but wonder if we used George I'd regret letting Arthur slip through our fingers so to speak.

Arthur! Fo'sho.

As well as George and James having the same sound, George to me is a flubbery, blubbery name. Arthur has a (slight) bit of an edge and he could be called Art which is quite cool.

The article VerBot linked to did make me smile.

'How could you not have done your research and found out that Arthur has leapt dangerously from 82 to 43 on the Office for National Statistics rankings over the last three years.'

This bit though (where he's hawking his book) 'Indeed I wrote about the correlation between baby names and socio-economic groupings in a book.' did make me think 'yeah, you've clearly read Freakonomics like the rest of us'.

Edward, James and George are my favourite boy's names (I have a George and Edward and James will be the middle names of our next ds - not allowed either as first names though sadly).

However I do think Arthur goes better with Edward and James.

Use both and call him Arthur George.

Arthur is great. George reminds me of the Bush family and the Royal family.