Which of these is best?

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Please help! We’re due our baby boy in 4 weeks and DH and I cannot agree on a name... below is a list of some I like, some he likes...

Otto
Elliot
Christian (Kit for short)
Gabriel
Lawrence

Which is your favourite (if any) and are there any names that are similar we’re over looking?!

I like Elliott the best but personally prefer it with 2 t’s
How about ?

Harrison
Henry
Jacob

I'm not mad about any of them. Elliot is probably the best one.

Otto - no
Elliot - ?
Christian (Kit for short) - Christopher is better. Christian is an adjective and the Krish-jun pronunciation is not nice.
Gabriel - no. Too long and will be shortened to Gay or Gabe
Lawrence - No.

big I like Henry ... I’ll see what DH thinks of it... we know lots of Harrisons and Jacobs at the moment, to the point whenever DS sees a baby boy he calls them Jacob!

Mike You share my apprehension of the shortening of Gabriel, there’s nothing that works is there?!

I like Elliot best, but don't mind Laurence (this spelling).

I much prefer Otis to Otto. Otto makes me think of garbage bins and the bus driver from the Simpsons.

Gabriel (Gabe).
İ dont see any teasing potential. It's becoming very popular now and look at Gabriel Byrne. It certainly hasn't hindered him in anyway, has it, and. I'm forever seeing William suggested. Never have I heard anyone say. "Oh you can't use William people will call him Willy.

I considered Otis, but I can’t get the bloody aardvark out of my head... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_the_Aardvark

Elliot seems to be the winner so far 👍

spider good point about Gabe, I hadn’t heard of that Byrne fella, I don’t know how embarrassed I should be about that.

I love Gabriel/Gabe

I like Otto and Gabriel best.

Lawrence

Elliott

Elliott with tt

Elliot

Gabriel is my favourite by far, followed by Elliott but the others I’m not keen on.

Christian is my favourite by a long way.

I like your list - Kit and Otto are my faves.

If you like Kit how about these:

Jesse
Ray
Sonny
Sullivan
Charlie
Arlo
Joshua
?

Rafael?

(That’s my suggestion for every baby boy on mn, I love it )

I like them all but I love the name Gabriel/Gabe, I probably would have used it for my DS if it didn't remind me of my stupid ex! It's still a lovely name though.

I like Elliot, Christian (Kit as nickname) and Lawrence

I like them all apart from Otto (just reminds me of the bus driver in the simpsons!)

What about Francis, Rowan, Stefan or Solomon.

I loved Gabriel but worried about it being shortened to Gabe as our surname starts with a B and the potential for teasing worried me.

We went with Elijah Jude in the end for our son! But he gets Eli even tho I'm not normally a fan of shortening names but it suits him xx

Love Elliot and Gabriel.

I don't like Otto, bus Otis is quite nice.

Really don't like Lawrence.

Otto reminds my other half of the bus driver from the Simpson’s as well!
I’ve added rafael, Jesse, Solomon and Elijah to the list thank you!!
Gabriel would work with our surname quite well 👍

Elliot is vile and chavvy to boot.

The rest are all great. My favourite by far is Gabriel. And Gabe is a cool nn.

They are all nice names. What about:

Rufus
Percy
Louis
Max
Noah
Reuben