Joel or Luca

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Or wild card Cooper.
Any other suggestions appreciated.
Can't have Jack or Nicholas sadly.

Joel.

I Luke or Lucas but not Luca, sounds like Lucre

Cooper is awful

i meant I like Luke.

We can't have Luke. We have family and a close friend with that name.

Joel here too.

Cooper is very "on trend" aka dated in a few years time.

Luca is nice if you have the Latino heritage to go with it, otherwise it's a bit much imo. I'd go for Lucas and just call him Luca as a nickname.

With Joel, bear in mind that some will say it as Joe-el, and some will think he's Joe.

Cooper is a dog's name. Joel and Luca are both lovely, as is Lucas.

Joel definitely. Luca if you're Italian or another country which uses that name otherwise no, sounds silly.

Cooper - just no - not a proper name.

Luca

Cooper sounds like a good name for a large slobbery Golden Retriever.
Luca is nice if you have Italian heritage (I know one 20 yo Luca who has exactly that)
Which leaves Joel. Which is ok I suppose.

Cooper - dislike

Joel - fine, don't love it, but I understand the appeal

Luca - my favourite of the three, though worth bearing in mind new Pixar film of the same name may cause a surge in popularity if that is a concern. I disagree with PPs that Luca requires Italian/Latino heritage, I think it is commonly used enough to not be an issue. For me it is like Louis vs Jean-Baptise, both are French but one is clearly very very French and highly unusual to be used by a Brit, the other simply French in origin.

Jsyk I know a Joel pronounced yoel (the j is said as a y) so whenever I see Joel, I always think of the other pronunciation.