Classic boys names - Alex or James?

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We are due to have a baby boy next week and we are so stuck on names. Current top two are James and Alexander (would be called Alex) but while I like both names I don’t love them - William and Thomas (would be Tom) are also possibilities. We would have gone with George but it’s my nephew’s name.

Any ideas? We had a list of about 10 names we loved with DD but for some reason boys names seem much harder!

I have a James and I love it. Also considered John (known as Jack) or Joseph?

Also Billy is cute?

Love both, but I would go for Alexander.

James for me

James is a lovely name

You can't go wrong with James in my opinion

James for me, also like Tom but not Thomas

I think Alexander, James and George are all lovely names. Slightly less keen on Tom. Have you thought about shortening Alexander a different way - it's got loads of nn potential (which I think is useful): Alex, Al, Xander, Xan, Sandy, Sasha

You say you haven't found a name you love yet, so here are some further ideas:
Rupert, Benedict, Ferdinand, Lysander, Jonathan, Mark, Marcus, Edward, Edmond

I like James because Jamie is a nicer short name than Alex

James

Alexander

I like them all apart from George (unless it's for a girl, for some reason I love George for a girl). If I had to pick, I'd go for Will or Tom.

James. It depends on your surname though.
Look at other classic names, not just ones that are current.
I like Michael, Peter, Philip, Andrew, John, Jonathan, Paul, Anthony, etc

@NewyearNewStartnomorejunk Jamie isn’t a shortened version of James though, it’s two syllables, James is one.

@Anonymouslyposting these two names are contenders for us too. Also considering Robert. I slightly prefer James because we don’t use nn (we may do in the future but DC1 currently goes by his full, two syllable name) and Alexander is long.

Alexander because there are plenty of James' around.

Alexander James

My two are called Alex and James - so OP you have absolutely excellent taste 😁.

Alex. Never been much of a James fan.

Thomas / Tom is great. I like William, but not Wlill. Love pp's suggestion of Robert.

I like Alexander. What about Alistair for something a bit different?

James is lovely

Alexander, James and George are my nephews!

I prefer Alexander/Alex, and will suggest my 4th nephew's name, Peter.

Alex James for the win

James is a fab name!

Also considered John (known as Jack) or Joseph?

I don't get this. If you want him to be called Jack, call him that, not John. Just a lifetime of explaining.

Three members of my family are called by their middle names, which is another scenario that creates stupidly confusing phone calls.

Alexander is the best one by a mile imo. Alex is also a much nicer 'nickname' than Jamie/Jimmy/etc.