Brother for James

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What would James's brother be called?

Edward
Arthur
William
Samuel

Or something else? Can't use Alexander as that's James's middle name.

Those are all great names, and all go well with James. Edward is my favourite. I'd also suggest Robert, Benjamin and Henry.

George

rafe

hugh

Love all those suggestions, although would avoid Arthur (as lovely as it is) as it seems to be so popular.

Other suggestions:

Henry
Benjamin
Isaac
Oliver (although v popular like Arthur)
Finley
Joseph
Louis
Elijah
Joshua
Reuben

I think we must be the same person!

We also have a James. I wanted Alexander but it's DH's name and he wouldn't change his

We are doing IVF and if we have another he will be Samuel, so my vote is for Samuel obviously.

Others on our list for our miraculously conceived identical twin boys (kidding..) are:

Elijah
Thomas
Adam

It cut me off. Also love Benjamin.

We have a James Alexander. Brother is Oliver William. Yes popular but really so is James!

I have a James. Had his sister been a brother he'd have been Frederick.

The Jameses I know almost all have sisters but the few with brothers have:
George
Oliver
Max

Love Edward. Also like Arthur. James and

Henry
harry
thomas
daniel
oliver
theodore
frederick
louis

Andrew

Edward nn Ned I think.. although they are all nice

or -

Luke
Thomas (Tom and Jim!)
Laurence
Patrick
Alistair
Barnaby
Nathaniel

Conrad
Sylvian
Laurence

James and

Lawrence
Ross
Matthew
Owen
Christopher
Michael
Thomas
Callum
Martin
Robert
Patrick
Myles
Reuben
Caleb

I know brothers James and Samuel nn Sam, which I really like. Also know siblings James and Harry.

For some reason I struggle to say James and William easily together, but maybe that's just me!

Love Edward

Maybe:

Thomas
Sebastian
Timothy
Dion
Quentin
Nicholas
Adam
Mathew
Luke

I thought William before I read your post!

Benjamin
Daniel
Oliver
Alistair
Robert
Alexander
Charlie

Elliott, Albert, Peter, Alastair, Edwin

Andrew, Matthew, Max, Michael

Christopher
Quentin
Nicholas

Luke

Daniel
Timothy
Paul
Mark
Michael
Charles
David
Thomas
Arthur
Louis
Peter
Andrew
Damien
Sebastian
Dominic
Raymond
Rex
Max
John
Jonathan
Henry
Rory

They are all really lovely name. Not helpful but I love them all and they'd all go well with James.

With classic James I think you could go in two obvious directions for a brothers name - traditional Biblical, in which case Thomas would be my pick as it's perennially popular like James (always top 50 historically), but Samuel is very nice too.

Or fellow British Kings - in which case I'd pick William (again always top 50), but Edward would be a lovely choice as well.

I admit I instantly thought of William with James, but of your choices the only one I'd hesitate on is Arthur, despite the Kingly link . One of the lovely things about James is that it is so timeless (like William, Thomas etc are), whereas Arthur is unfortunately quite trendy again at the moment.

Thomas
Henry
Harry
Daniel