To ask you to help me name our son?

[namethisbeaut]

Help! We can't name our baby boy. We've been disagreeing about this for months now, and he's finally here and we're still no closer.
So can I turn it over to you, wise Mumsnetters? To offer up your best suggestions and help us stop referring to him as 'the baby'.
Ideally we don't want any royal names, surnames as names, or American popular names like Grayson.
Surname is Chipp.
Thank you!

I think you need to set yourself a deadline to make a decision op then resolve not to come back to the thread so people can't put you off! Good luck, he's gorge

Similar to Sebastian but only 2 syllables:
Reuben Chipp
Quentin Chipp
Roman Chipp

I had a list very similar to yours, with most of the same names. I went for Jasper in the end. Obviously it wasn't on your shortlist but just throwing it out there!

Off the top of my head, James, George, William, Christopher, Maxwell, Lucas, Andrew, Robert, Elliot, Lawrence, Alexander, Simon, Samuel, Matthew, Jonathan, Nathan, Ernest, Rupert, Lionel, Leo(nard), Marcus, Stephen, Stephan, Theo(dor), all sound nice to my ears with Chipp.

It's easier to say a name ending in "I" or "EE" sound with your surname, but while some people go with these as the given name, others pick a nickname, check the original more formal name works with the surname, and then give the more formal version as the name on the birth certificate. Eg Charles/Charlie. (I don't think Charles/Charlie Chipp works personally though.) Up to you.

Names ending in a C(K) or Ch or X sound will run into/be hard to say with the "Ch" of Chip, so I'd avoid Marc, Rich(ard), Alex(ander), Frederick, Roderick etc. Even names ending in T are a bit trickier.

I tend to agree with the PP who said that a longer first name would sound better with Chipp although sometimes short names can be very effective. However if you did go for something like James or George, these can be lengthened to Jamie and Georgie as nicknames, and choose a longer middle name. So James William Chipp sounds good, James George Chipp a bit too abrupt.

Rowan Chipp

I think Sebastian is quite long and will get shortened. Maybe a two syllable name?

Rafferty Chipp?

Sasha chip is a bit of a mouthful

Sacha Chipp so but makes me think of Salsa n chips.

When I first saw the photo I though Sebastian. But now reading your updates I still think Sebastian, but have to say I absolutely love the name Sacha. However I do think Sebastian works better with your surname.

You could maybe do Alexander/Aleksander with a nickname of Sasha?

@bonfireheart
Best not to go for Duncan Chipp either:)

@Mustangsallyis

You could maybe do Alexander/Aleksander with a nickname of Sasha?

This is very Russian; Aleksandr/Sasha. (Eastern European here).

That's like naming a baby Diego with no South American links

Sacha is great.

Oh I much prefer Sacha.

Have you decided yet?

Lots of good suggestions here. He's really handsome, congratulations.

I think Sebastian is a lovely name but I think he will mostly be Seb Chipp. To me, not so nice sorry.

I think Elliot rolls off the tongue far nicer and generally in my experience of having a friend, Elliot, people don't shorten it often at all. He is always Elliot. Just something to consider I suppose.

Cameron is dated to me as I was in school with so many.

Of the three I would go with Elliot but you have to go with what feels right for you both. Maybe narrow down your two or three absolute favourites and try them out on him for a day each.

And one more suggestion to add to the list - I really think he looks like an Orlando. Nn Lando. Orlando Chipp and Lando Chipp both sound amazing to my ears. Sorry to add anymore confusion just came to me when I saw his photo ❤️

I prefer Sacha to Sebastian, however he looks like a Gabriel to me.

What did you call him?