Henry and...

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Help! I'm expecting a second DS and struggling to come up with a list, so hoping for some ideas please/ TIA! We already have a Henry Alexander.

We both like very traditional names, nature names, or slightly more unusual for the UK (we loved Soren). We're also tempted by pretentious middle class names but wary of overdoing it. I prefer full names to nicknames/ diminutives (Henry v Harry, Alfred v Alfie, Charles v Charlie etc).

So my 2 boys should be Henry Alexander and...? 😁

I got my name list from Henry Hoovers.

So the OP may want to avoid those names.

Rueben

Barnaby
Michael
Raymond

i like the alliteration of Henry and Hugo (though I prefer Hugh).

Edward Arthur
William Edward

Edwin - a really underused name.
I also love Hugo. Not a name I’d have used but I do love it.

🤣

Sebastian Oliver

There is a thread elsewhere on MN about what vacuum cleaner someone should buy and Henry is very popular.

We do have one and it's fab. We refer to it as "useful Henry"

😂

Your poor son.

There must be other good appliances/household items with boys names that aren't immediately obvious.

Louis
George
Oliver
Sebastian
Thomas
Arthur

Thomas, James, Percy, Gordon, Edward, Toby

all very useful engines and very good names

Jude
Hugo
Arthur

George

You've missed Oliver, Fergus, Billy, Bill, Derek, Arthur, Diesel,...

According to my DD.

John
Robin
Edmund
Francis
Jonathan
Laurence
Miles
Nathaniel
Peter
Nicholas
Joseph
Samuel
Thomas
Josiah

Our DS is also Henry :)

Expecting DC3 this month and if they're a boy they'll almost certainly be Laurence (nn Lar). Other boys' names we shortlisted were:

Alexander
Jules
Edward
Edwin
John
Hugo
Gabriel
Adam

Good luck OP!

Just re-read that your Henry's middle name is Alexander so that might not be a contender for you, though if DC3 is a boy I'm very tempted to give them the middle name 'Henry' in homage to their big brother, and because it remains my favourite boy name 😁

Henry &

Edward
Arthur
Quentin
Magnus

I'd avoid another H name

OP what did you go for? I also have a Henry Alexander

I know a Henry and Samuel, and think that works well.

Personally, I'd go for Matthew James or David James.

Alexander James

George. Henry and George go so well together

George Sebastian
George Nathaniel
George Christopher

Or Samuel

Samuel George
Samuel Edmund
Samuel James

Or Jonathan - classic and underused name

George
Christopher
James
Johnathan
Miles
Arthur
Francis
Thomas
Edward
Timothy
Rupert

I do too.