If I like James, Richard + David

[thatfudgewastoosalty]

What else might I like?

Philip and Matthew

We have a David and would have had a James if DD had been DS2.

Our list was;

David Alexander (DC1)

and for DC2 the shortlist was:

James William
Samuel James
Hector James
Patrick James

James, Richard, David

Michael
Joseph
Robert
Paul
Dominic
Francis
Xavier
Christopher
Vincent
Barnabas
Bartholomew
Matthew
Amos
Quentin
Thomas
Tobias
Percival

Christian
Adam
Philip
Robert

Jamie/Jamie
Nicholas
William
Thomas
Matthew

Sounds like boys' namesb from when I was at primary school so...
Thomas
Benjamin
Mark
Jonathan
Christopher
Stephen
Daniel
Alexander
Michael

Michael
Daniel
George
Robert

I like Philip
Also Peter, Gregory, Patrick, Robert, Roland.

Andrew, Daniel, Jonathan (siblings of people I know with the names you like)

James and David are my favourite boys' names and I wanted our son to have one of those names, but they weren't favourites with my husband. He wanted Thomas, which I wasn't keen on, so we compromised on another classic name (impossible now to imagine our son with any other name, of course).

I also like Nicholas and Alexander.

What do you think of Philip?

I love it, and I think it's due for a comeback

Anthony
Christopher
Joseph
Geoffrey
Peter
Michael

My favourite ‘boring’ classic name are Daniel, Matthew and Benjamin.

Eldest is David - totally perfectly good name!

I would say the most classic of those is James.. it’s timeless, a lot like William, it never goes in or out of fashion. Richard feels really dated, as does David.

James is my ex dh’s name, my brothers name and my sons middle name. I would’ve used it as a first name, but thought there would be just one too many in a small family. I love it x

As pp notes James is kind of the ultimate classic in a way (along with Thomas and William) as it's always stayed very popular -it's hard to guess the age of a James.

But Phillip will stand out more now (in a nice way) as it's a lot rarer on younger men, without being as retro as names like Stanley, Albert etc. Diminutive "Pip" is also completely adorable on a little one, and "Flip" cool on a teenager imo (so he doesn't have to go the middle aged "Phil" route if he doesn't want to).

I think James might be due a drop in popularity like David did in the last 20 years. Because it's become ubiquitous.

James, Richard, David

Michael
Robert
Dominic
Christopher
Vincent
Matthew
Quentin
Thomas
Nicholas

All good solid classic names that aren't overused or trendy

@Blubells

James, Richard, David

Michael
Robert
Dominic
Christopher
Vincent
Matthew
Quentin
Thomas
Nicholas

All good solid classic names that aren't overused or trendy

This is my entire extended family on male side...

Samuel
Daniel
Jonathan
Simon
Peter
David

Quentin
Eric
Elias
Robert
Leonard
Dean
Paul
Richard
Douglas

Christopher
Edward
Arthur
Charles
Peter