We need a new name.

[Tillygetsit]

I put a thread on AIBU about this because I'd had so many threads re names on here that I thought you'd be heartily sick of me.
We had chosen (with lots of help from you) a name for our ds who arrives in April.
We recently found out that ds has DS and dh didnt want to use the name we'd picked because he felt it was wrong for this baby. I was furious about this but one of the posters on AIBU said that children with DS often have problems pronouncing words with 2 consonants together. The name is Bram.
So we've moved the goalposts again and are trying to think of an easy to say/spell name preferably biblical cos my other 3 dc have biblical names ( not religious just like them)
Dh likes Seth (I'm not keen) I'm going round in circles. I know logically the biblical thing doesnt matter but I dont want this little one to be the odd one out.
Family members called Samuel, Isaac, Joshua, Peter, Noah, Benjamin and Matthew. I liked Adam but a "helpful" friend said not good because of A dumb. I cried about that. Really looking forward to baby and will adore him obvs. Any ideas?

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Oh and the person who made the Adam comment is well known for being a dick. Not a close friend and not a friend at all now. Blamed pregnancy hormones for me getting upset.

Adam's a lovely name. But if you've been put off it, how about:

John

Very easy to say, and a lovely classic name that has fallen out of favour unfairly.

Peter's a great name, and underused these days.

Adam is a great name. I'd happily call a boy Adam and I work in a school so get put off a lot of names!

Aaron
Jeremiah
Amos
Mark
Paul
Timothy
Zachary/ Zachariah
Philip

oh, and
Benjamin,
esp if he is likely to be the youngest.

Eli. Ari. X

I love the name Seth but think it is potentially difficult for small children to pronounce. Jonah and Caleb are great biblical names.

Your friend is a cow. Please dump her.

I think Peter is a really good choice. I also like Daniel, John and Jacob. Not keen on Seth at all.

I liked Adam but a "helpful" friend said not good because of A dumb.
Seriously? You should have punched them in the face.

Adam is a lovely name, very easy to pronounce.

Peter is lovely. I actually know someone with ds who has this name, NN Pete.

Suggestions:
Noah
Aram
Esau
Jeremy/Jeremiah
Jonas
Omri
Raphael
Lucius
Michael
Nathaniel

I'm not keen on Seth.

I would be put off by Seth because of people with different accents pronunciation of it being Seff

OP congratulations on your bump!

I think a lot of pp have been confused by your use of DS as Down's Syndrome, it certainly threw me while trying to read your post so i think that's why there's a lot of "easy for young children to pronounce" or as if they will grow into it as they didn't get that even as baby gets older they are likely to speak differently some others.

Ime I've found one or two syllable words to be easiest so previous suggestions of Noah and Peter. Although I'd also consider perhaps avoiding anything with too strong an R sound? Or how about Barak? A fighter if i remember right 😉 and a bit more unusual like your Bram is.

Names can be so difficult to choose and especially when considering unfortunate triggers at any time, but i understand wanting to be more careful for your precious boy. I certainly didn't find that 'you see them and just know' what name applied to me but you'll see him and just know you love them and will do anything for them. Lucky baby having all those older siblings to love and fuss over him too!

Yes sorry I didn’t really understand the DS reference at the start of the thread and am still a bit confused about what’s happened as I don’t understand the original post @Tillygetsit @owlalwaysloveyou

Anyway I love the names Adam Peter and Seth

Sorry I don’t really Understand A Dumb or whatever

My son has DS, and is called Dracob (like Jacob) he does have trouble pronouncing it and prefers to sign it.

I love Bram.
What about Zeb short for Zebedee or zebediah. Both biblical

A Dumb from Adam?

What a stupid thing to say. You might as well not call him Bram because, well, people might tease him for being called Bee Ram. Or Seth could possibly stand for Super Evil Tree Hugger. I could go on...

OP, I can see why you are upset by your DH wanting to not use the chosen name. In your shoes I might just refuse to accept that. Bram is lovely. I think on pronunciation it's hard to tell, I can envisage just as much of a potential issue with Seth being Seff.

Biblical theme - lucky you, there are so many lovely names to choose from then! Wrt potential speech difficulties, something with a very simple short form would be good. I like Benedict shortened to Ben, you say you already have a Benjamin so would that work? - a Ben?

Adam is just lovely. Easy to say.

Simon good too.

Peter's ok.

I think that your DH's choice here should be either going with Bram as planned or maybe reining it in a bit on his opinions on other names you love. Bit [angy] on your behalf there, although I know of course he has a lot to take on board too.

OP I think I should apologise a little for my tone above - not helpful really being negative about your DH and certainly not the place of someone on the outside, when both of you are dealing with such a big bit of information and processing all that as well as I assume being concerned that your DS's health is ok.

Sure you've talked it all through and this should be kept to name chat really.

Jonathan instead of John? Jon is a lovely shortening, so easy and quite different from John somehow (though like John too!)

Nicholas - not biblical per se but a saint? Nick v easy to say.

Love Christopher nn Kit - another saint. Kit super easy to say and so cool.

I taught DS children and other children with learning and speech difficulties. I've been looking through the names suggested so far and imagining past pupils trying to say them.

Micah stands out to me as being easy to say, whatever type of speech impediment a child might have.

John

I like 'Eli' pronounced E-lie.

I like Eli too and John! :)
Dan?

Seth is likely to be difficult for someone with DS to pronounce. Luke might be too, the "L" sounds can take a while because the tongue has to be rolled.

Micah is good as pp says it is a clear easy sound and also a nice name.
I also wanted to say I have worked with people with DS and while there is a long list of possible health issues associated with it, it's very rare for one individual to have the full list.
I can only imagine that it is scary reading up on the possibilities and getting information on the necessary interventions. Hopefully only a few of these will actually apply to your son.
Also, if you don't know many people with DS already they are as different from each other in personality and learning aptitude as any other group of people. Your son will be just as much an individual as your other children.