Boy twin name

[Kate5789]

Our twin girl is called Jessica. We are struggling with our twin boys name. Jude or Nate were our top two. Which sounds best please? Or should I swap to James?
The twins have an older brother called Benjamin. So Benjamin, Jessica and...

I don't like Jude at all and am not keen on Nate. I love James but Jessica and James are a slightly twee together. I like Jessica.

It seems you like 3 syllable names, so I'd go for another 3 syllable boy's name. Jonathan or Nicholas or Nathaniel nn Nate.

I prefer James to Jude or Nate.

But out of Jude or Nate I'd pick Nate, perhaps short for Nathaniel.

James - underused these days and a great name.

The other two are nice too.

Just go with James. It's such a nice name.

... if you do use Nate do put Nathan or Nathaniel on the birth cert ...

I love Nate, short for Nathaniel. You may not want to shorten the names but I expect eventually they will be Ben, Jess and Nate, lovely.

Does Jessie and James sound wrong together?

With my last I picked Jessica for a girl and James for a boy!!

I would go for James, Nathaniel or Nathan nn Nate and Jude in that order.

I think James goes best with Jessica and Benjamin, all lovely names.

Thanks that’s where we’d got to in terms of favourites. But we’re not keen on Nathan or Nathanial so wondered about just Nate. The majority view so far is to have the full version?

I think I'd go with James, and there are various shortened versions too that work well. Nate is lovely except invariably people drop the 't' and it sounds horrible. Nat is nice but I'd veto that too for the same reason. Jude always reminds me of Judas which is a shame as in itself it's a nice name!

Ah great minds!

I don't normally like twin names with the same initial, but I love Jessica and James is beautiful.
Jessica and James is lovely. I think Joseph goes, too.

Although a friend has a Nathaniel and he's known as Natty.

Jethro is my suggestion.

I love Jesse James. Jesse itself is a strong, biblical name- one that I love.

Just to make you aware - Jessie and James were team rocket in pokemon which for a 90s child is the first association i would make!

Jesse James was a famous outlaw.

I'm not a fan of alliterative names so of your options I'd choose Nate.

Oh I am sorry. Jesse being Jessica. Sorry. I was thinking of the male name Jesse. Scratch that. Start again.

Jesse (as in Jessica) and James DOES unfortunately sound a little silly.

Jessica and Joseph?

Jesse and Joe sound nice together.

I love James and Jude but if you've decided on Jessica the two J names might sound a bit much and there's potential for confusion with school correspondence etc.

@OneStepOneStumble

Just to make you aware - Jessie and James were team rocket in pokemon which for a 90s child is the first association i would make!

Same here. I'm not a nineties child, but my children are

Thanks everyone. Some useful food for thought!

My boy is the eldest so maybe James and Jessie (Jessica) doesn’t sound like an outlaw or a Pokemon team? I didn’t know about the Pokemon team...I guess the children won’t either?

I would definitely go for names with different initials, mostly to eliminate correspondence confusion as a previous poster already said.
I think Nate is a really cool name, I’d personally go for that

Another thought (I personally hate it) is shortern/nick names! I named my 4 children so hate others changing their names!!

My first thought was Pokemon too, with Jessie and James. It's been popular for years and likely to stay that way...

Alexander works well with Benjamin and Jessica?