Similar to Sebastian...?

[NCBabyName]

I already have DD Matilda
Surname is Carty

Middle name will be Peter

Current options are:

Sebastian (Sebby/Seb)
Hugo
Joshua
Rupert

What else might you suggest in the same 'not-too-pretentious but would fit well on the rugby pitch as well as in the board room' style?! (Which was also the criteria for Matilda 😂)

We were sold on Sebastian until I found out it was a boy, and now I realise I loved the girl name we had lined up more than the boy choice!

Gabriel
Tobias
Alexander
Tristan

Joshua doesn’t fit at all.

Lawrence
Tobias
Benedict
Jonathan
Marcus

Why don't you splurge on a month's subscription to Ancestry.com and go up the family tree?

Our library gives me free access (so others might).

Austin

Your boys names are fairly pretentious (apart from Joshua), not really the same style as Matilda. Are you looking for something a bit more universal?

Florian

@BungleandGeorge

Your boys names are fairly pretentious (apart from Joshua), not really the same style as Matilda. Are you looking for something a bit more universal?

How can you know that they're pretentious if you don't know anything about the OP? She might be a demi-royal! Matilda is a traditional English name, previously used by royalty. Seems very in keeping with the other names to me.

Matlilda is very popular and pretty ubiquitous. Rupert really isn’t. She specifically said she didn’t want pretentious well in my opinion don’t go for Rupert or Hugo then. If she does want that type of name then Fabian is a good suggestion. If she wants classic without any connotations then Alexander or in fact most of the other suggestions are better.

They’re really not pretentious. They’re perfectly normal names and Matilda fits nicely with them.

Sebastian was on my list. As well as Franklin, Frederick, Theodore, Maximilian, Alexander and Archibald 💙

Abraham (Abe)
Benedict
Fergus

‘Pretentious’ = middle class.

Sebastian is my favourite by far. Not true that Joshua doesn’t fit.

Others - Orlando, Jasper, Gabriel

I'm entirely biased but I love Sebastian.

Mine is Seb. Hates Sebby. Used to get 'Basta' at school (not in the UK).

Lysander was on my list (went for Hugo in the end, he’s such a Hugo!)
Other ones
Miles
Xander
Theodore
Orlando
Flynn
Huxley
Loxley

I love Gabriel and love it shortened to Gabe

Thanks mnhq! Popped the wrong pic up

Ah - I did wonder

Sebastian is lovely ... my preference would be for Seb as a NN rather than Bastian. Reminds me a little of that film cruel intentions 😆

Hugo is great too

I want to name our boy who's due soon Douglas which I think fits the bill but my OH has vetoed

Other suggestions - Oscar, Wilfred, Barney, Nicholas, Leo

Thanks all! Some good alternatives here.
You've also kind of swayed me back to Sebastian...!

I do like Dominic (but not sure about the double C at end of given name, beginning of surname).
Oscar was originally on my list years ago (pre DP!) but then met DP and he already had a dog called Oscar so that's a no go.
I like Oliver - one to think about.

And sadly I am not demi-royal and also not in Hampshire (Derbyshire) but I'm glad that the names seem to be ringing together well!

What's the girl name you had picked of baby a girl @NCBabyName

Seth
Tristan
Wilfred
Laurence

I love Sebastian though

@bloominglovelyorange
She would have been Nell Edith Maria (cramming both grandmothers' names in the middle there!).

I actually really like Seth...

My name is very similar to Laurence so that's not possible, and Tristan is a close friend's ex-DH's name - but also reminds me too much of Stardust (and therefore wimpy Charlie Cox) which although is one of my favourite books/films, just conjures up images of magic and witches! Blimey isn't it sad that these things put you off a name.

Sebastian feels similar to Quentin, Reuben and Tristan. I don't find any of them 'pretentious' and perfectly fine with Mathilda

Alasdair