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Help me!

We have a very common welsh surname that isn't Davis or Kelly.

Husband is Welsh. I am not. We live in the north.

We like traditional names. I'm a teacher so it's making this very hard. We have an Alexander (Alex) I like names that can be shortened. Second boy due very very soon

So far:
Sam
Max
Ollie

But haven't settled on anything.

Help!! Open to suggestions

Thank you, that's fair enough but I do like the sound of Jacob Jones 😁 Not sure how retro you want to go but I've thought of a few more. Happy baby naming.

Will/Billy
Alastair
Alec
Aaron
Eric
Levi
Ian
Spencer
Casper
Cameron
Ernest
Harry
Colin
Timothy/Tim
Ray or Roy
Nial/Neil
Adam
Dean
Harrison
Edwin

Camden Jones

Nicholas, Benjamin, and Rafael/Raphael were my first thoughts.

Some other longer/shortenable ones that may not have been mentioned yet:

Ant(h)ony
Barnabas (maybe not Barnaby)
Everett
Christian
Cillian/Kilian
Malcolm
Mat(t)hias
Phineas
Thaddeus
Timothy
Tobias

I like Dominic Jones, it sounds like the brother of Alexander Jones.

Pity your boss is called Nick. Nicholas Jones would have been good.

If you have an Alexander, I'd be tempted to go for another completely timeless (ie. never left the E and W top 100 historically) boys name to match - so William (Will, Bill/y, Liam), Edward (Ed/die, Ted/dy, Ned, Ward, Bear, Woody, even Iolo at a push), Michael (Mike, Mick/ey, Mika, Misha, even Cal at a push), Charles (Cal as well as Charlie), Daniel (Dan/ny), Thomas (Tom/my, Tam) or David (Dave/y). There's also George, James and Joseph but you said no J and obv there's limited shortenings for George!

Harri
Aidan
Bran
Tomos
Idris
Marc
Cai
Steffan
Deri
Elis
Garth
Lloyd
Merlin
Rhodri

Jasper
Broderick (Brody)
Charles (Charlie)
Zachary (Zach)
Lucas (Luke)
Sebastian (Bash)
Julian (Jules)
Aubrey (Aubs)

Missing the point entirely but - Kelly is not a Welsh surname, it’s Irish.

Idris Jones
Kai Jones
Wynn Jones (I love that this also sounds like Win- good nominative determinism)

Cooper
Tudor
Andrew
Mitchell
Aaron
Anderson
Brogan
Logan
Lachlan
Richard
Henry
George
Julian

Tudor!? Surely not.

Alexander and

edward
thomas
luke
william
george
charlie
benjamin
zachary
jack
james
joseph
freddie
jacob
harry
henry
daniel
theo

Ted
Cosmo
Sonny

@SemperIdem The OP's surname isn't Kelly, it's Jones.

I have a Max. Ds 2 and 3 are Lucas and Theo

Ellis
Rhys
Ollie

X

To shorten…

like others, love Sebastian.

Also
Albert
Cuthbert
(both shortened to Bertie)

Stanley ( Stan)
Arthur (Art or Arty)

Laurence nn Laurie
Robert nn Robbie, Robin or Bobby
Christopher nn Kit or Christy
Nathaniel nn Nat/Nate/Nathan
Patrick (as is but Paddy and Patchy nice)
Jonathan nn Jonny
Cassian nn Cass

Indiana

Elias or Elijah = Eli
Jonathan = Jonty
Rowland = Rowly or Rollo
Orlando = Orly, Orlie
Henry = Hal
Christopher = Kit