Boys names: final 3 - which would you choose?

[Allium16]

I honestly feel like I should be awarded some sort of degree for the amount of time, effort and research I've put into coming up with this final 3. All 3 have their downsides, which I shall explain below. Bearing those in mind, which would you go for?

Nathaniel (really love the long form, but I feel it's a bit, well, long, and neither Nat nor Nate do it for me)

Elijah (the popularity bothers me as I want to try to avoid him being one of several in his class. It's a really nice name though)

Evan (not sure it goes as well with DS1's name (Jude) as the other two).

No idea about a middle name as I don't care as much about those - feel free to make suggestions with your preferred choice. Surname starts with a W, for initials purposes.

Oh, I love Elijah!
Then probably Nathaniel, which I also love, then I'm a bit meh about Evan.

it has strong religious connotations for me and doesn't go with Jude at all

I don't understand this... children don't need to "go": they're not paint colours or appendages of each other and will be living their own separate lives, mostly apart.
I just picked what I wanted when naming my DC, as long as they didn't sound too alike.

In any case, Elijah and Jude (and Nathaniel) are biblical, so arguably go better together, and Evan is the odd one out.

Elijah. Love it. I don't think it's too popular either, it's not top 10 is it?

Don't like the other two.

My vetoed-by-my-rubbish-DH boys names were Josiah, Benedict and Magnus - pick one of these, they’re brilliant!!!!

Evan

Goes perfectly well with Jude. Your reservations on the other names are harder to overcome. He won’t spend his whole life being the end of “Jude and…” in any case.

Elijah was ranked 38th in 2019. There were 329,107 baby boys born that year in England and Wales, and only 1,621 were named Elijah. Less than 0.5%. It's possible but statistically very unlikely that there would be more than one Elijah in a class of 30 at school.

@Allium16 yes is great when we get an update
best of luck