Boy names help needed!! Brother for Alexander

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Hi so baby due soon and we cannot think of any boy names we love....help please! Due to surname no names starting with B, soft sounding G or J. We like classic sounding international names.....ok go!

Quentin
Thomas
Raphael
Sebastian
Frederick

Christopher
Nicholas

Peter, Oscar, Philip?

I like Christopher and Nicholas, Thomas is ok too. DH doesn't like nickname for Nicholas and I don't really like Chris.... Tom is ok....we had also thought of Elliott, Simon and Charles but I just don't love any of them aaagh!

Elliott works well internationally but Charles and Simon are pronounced very differently in other languages.

Nicholas
Lawrence
Jonathan
Nathaniel

Arthur Edward Patrick Hector Andrew Laurence

If your surname starts with J don't automatically dismiss J names, for example James Jones sounds great!

Gregory

Was supposed to be Gregor but autocorrected for me. I quite like both.

Marcus
Timothy
Luca(s)

Charles
Christian
Dominic
Daniel
Edmund
Edward
Frederick
Francis
Gregory
Gabriel
Henry
Hector
Hugo
Isaac
Isidore
Ivan
Lucas
Leo
Matthew
Michael
Maximilian
Nathaniel
Oliver
Oscar
Patrick
Peter
Philip
Robert
Solomon
Thomas
Theodore
Vincent
William
Zachary

Most alexanders we know seem to have brothers called William.

Matthew, Lucas, Daniel.

What about Kit short for Christopher?

Nathaniel
Daniel
Cosmas
Tobias
Sebastian
David
Edward
Lucas
Phillip
Marcus
William
Anthony
Jonathan
Paul
Samuel
Caspian

Frederik
Nathaniel
Oscar
Erik
Anthony
Mungo
Julius
Basil
Marcus
Donato
Thomas
Henrik
William
Harry
Philipp
Sebastian

Alfred
Ferdinand
Simeon
Leo
Conrad
Tristram
Lucius

David
Martin
Patrick
Victor
Vernon
Ivan
Roland
Edmund
Wesley
Graeme
Ellory
Amos
Chester
Horatio
Marcus
Benito
Phineas
Niall
Sebastian
Laszlo
Montgomery

Your surname must start with J (as you don't want BJ understandably or J/GJ sound. )

I agree with a PP that you shouldn't discount J names. JJ are good initials.

You want simple, classic names to go with Alexander and work internationally.

Nic(h)olas, T(h)omas, Matt-hew/ieu, Jack/Jacques?

Maximilian
Montegue
Jasper could work and then nn could be JJ !

You've got Alexander the Great. Why not Frederick (Freddie) or Peter the Great?

(I've got a Catherine the Great!).

I have an Alexander and a Samuel.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I really don't like alliteration with our surname so sticking to original plan of avoiding b/j/many g names. Hadn't thought of Ivan or Laurence, I like William but hate Willie, Billy etc....I know I'm being a fuss pot....

Felix
Wilfred
Caspar
Edwin
Leon
Adam
Lewis
Magnus
Ethan
Robin
Harrison
Connor
Liam
Duncan
Reuben
Emil
Rupert
Cassius
Marius

I haven't come across a William called Willy or Billy for a long time. I know a few who have shortened it simply to Will, which is nice enough. Alternatively Liam is another shortening of William (although has become a name in its own right too)

Owen
Wulfric

We have an Alexander. We too wanted a classic sounding international name.

Our shortlist if DC2 had been a boy was:

Hector William
Patrick William
David William
Samuel James

We had William chosen as a middle name because we liked the name, but didn't want to risk it being shortened to Willie. We didn't think William worked with Samuel, though.