Brother for Evan

[Dreamcatcher007]

We really liked the names Daniel and Jonathan for the younger boy, but worry that Daniel is too popular (we live in London, and according to ONS, it’s been in top 10 baby names in London for the past 3 years!), and Jonathan is likely to be spelled wrong all the time. But I’m really stuck for alternatives! Alexander and Adam seem even more popular than Daniel...

Help! Any other ideas?

@Dreamcatcher007

We really liked the names Daniel and Jonathan for the younger boy, but worry that Daniel is too popular (we live in London, and according to ONS, it’s been in top 10 baby names in London for the past 3 years!), and Jonathan is likely to be spelled wrong all the time. But I’m really stuck for alternatives! Alexander and Adam seem even more popular than Daniel...

Help! Any other ideas?

I love Alexander. It's classic but modern. You're right, it's popular but you could around this with its huge array of possible nicknames... Alex, Xander, Sandie, Sandro, Al, Lex

Max

Alexander, Max, Jack

I love Alexander nn Alec the best. Evan is a fab name.

Aaron

People who used the name Evan also liked...

Oliver
Henry
Liam
Emmett
Ethan
Finn
Miles
Noah
Jack
Caleb
Sawyerdeclan
Wyatt
Milo
Elliot
James

(From nameberry.com)

Daniel is lovely if you like it go for it.
Alexander is great. Benjamin?
Zachary, Elliot, Ellis, Samuel, Dean, Adrian?

I love Evan, other names I like are
Owen
Jude
Seth
Finn
Francis
Jonah
James
Matthew
Robert
David
Theodore
Hugo
Max

Aidan
Thomas
Joshua
Damon

Isaac
Joel
Felix
Otto
Max
Zachary

I do like Daniel and Jonathan too though :)

Ah. I'd come to say that the Evans I know have brothers called Joseff, Dafydd, Emlyn and similar, but that's not what you're after!

Evan and Thomas/ Tom
Evan and Jack
Evan and Rhys
Evan and Lewis
Evan and Elliot
Evan and Ellis
I really like Daniel though!

Rhys.

I think Rory would be Amazing with Evan

Perry

Kai
Caleb
Dylan
Rhys
Lucas
Seth
William
Lewis

Thanks so much everyone, really helpful!

I know brothers Daniel and Jonathan.
Their other brothers are matthew and david.
I also met a toddler dean recently

Evan and dean seem to fit nicely.
Owen
Ieuan
Ian
Oscar
Arlo
Ashton
Mikey
James
Gethin
Dylan

Jonathan is great! A name that everyone knows but is really not common. Plus Jon, Jonny or Jonty are all cute nicknames.
I'm not sure how it would be misspelled? Are you thinking people would write Johnathan? I don't think it would be that common.
(My DC has a popular- ish name that has several legitimate spellings - it's not this but it's a bit like Rebecca and Rebekah which are both real spellings but one is less common than the other. Her name had a third option too which is really uncommon - think Rebecah.
We used the most common spelling, mostly because dh and I both had preferences for different ones of the rarer spellings so it seemed fair. I swear that 50% of parents in primary school when writing invitations etc chose a 4th and completely incorrect spelling that I don't think exists - think Rebeca.
I think if people pn the name wrongly all the time it would really annoy me but spelling it wrongly didn't bother me half as much).

I'm not keen on Daniel. I find it a bit boring.
Evan is so lovely. If Jonathan doesn't work how about:
Hugo
Amos
Toby
Reuben
Oscar

I'd avoid names like John, Sean, Iain, (Jack), Euan, Eoin etc as they are all forms of John.

Daniel is a classic and will always be popular - people really like it. I'd use it.

There are some great suggestions here - thanks so much everyone! I do like James, Adrian, Thomas, Damon, Oscar, Arthur, but I think some of my favourite names are also really popular, ie ideally I wanted to avoid top 10-20 names, but it doesn’t sound like I can have it being unique and classic and non-weird at the same time!

@MikeUniformMike Yes we are mindful of that! What about Jonathan - is that too similar to John...?

I's not, but he will be called Jon. I suppose you could nn him Jonty, which is rather nice.

I know a brother and sister called John and Jane but nobody ever says anything. They have other siblings though.

@MikeUniformMike

I's not, but he will be called Jon. I suppose you could nn him Jonty, which is rather nice.

I know a brother and sister called John and Jane but nobody ever says anything. They have other siblings though.

I know brothers called John and Jack (young). I find it very weird!