Arthur or Alistair?

[Purpletopaz42]

Narrowed it down to two, DH prefers Arthur slightly more and I prefer Alistair slightly more, which do you prefer?

Also, although we really like both t
names, we're not as keen on Art, Artie, Al, Ally, so if anyone has any nickname suggestions that would be great, thank you.

I like both and I have an Alasdair. One good thing about Arthur is that there's just the one spelling. You'll get different spellings of Alistair. Then again it's such a nice name and isn't as popular as Arthur.

Alistair

Alistair is lovely. Ali is a good nn, I also know an Alistair known as Sandy. Agree with a PP that you could pick a middle name to make an initial nickname- Joseph, Jack or Joshua maybe.

Alistair is handsome and has great meaning.
I know a couple of Alistairs and they go by their full name.

Alastair because Arrrrrfer

I don't like Alistair, much prefer Arthur and only know 1.

Alistair

I love Arthur but it’s been done to death

Alistair is the default spelling outside Scotland so you won’t have any trouble with it. I know 3, 2 are just Alistair and one is Al.

Thank you for all the responses 🙂 It is very much appreciated. We still haven't decided, might end up waiting until he's born but it was great hearing everybody's thoughts. I was just thinking, Arthur only has one spelling but with Alistair, there's also Alastair and Alasdair, so I was just wondering which spelling people prefer? Many thanks

I think it depends where you are- in England at least I think people will assume Alistair is the spelling. Alasdair looks really nice though.

I think I’d go for Alistair but I like Alastair just as much. I don’t like the D as much which is irrational as it’s still a lovely name with it !