What's the nicest boys name you ever heard?

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What's the nicest boys name you ever heard?
Did you use it wish you used it it or a saving it for the future?

Alec
Clement
Kit
Florian
Vigo
Corin
Jerome
Tibault
Nico

my two boys are somewhere in that list

James. Edward. Thomas. Luke.

Simple, strong, traditional, timeless.

William is my top pick as I generally like names that are:
-Timeless and classless (so you can't guess someone's age or social background from them),
-Internationally well used/recognized (in case they travel widely or move abroad).

Bonus if:
-Lots of history/good variety of namesakes (fun discussion point with kids),
-Variety of nickname choice (so they can make the name their own),
-Reasonably popular (since it means the name is generally well liked, plus they can get personalised stuff easily which most kid seem to love).

Other names I considered:
James, Thomas, Edward, Samuel, Alexander and Michael (but William is the only one that hit all the points - although James came close and that seems a popular choice on this thread!).

Gabriel, Alexander

Boris

Nathan james

Gabriel
Torbien
Tobias
Azekiel
Ezriel
Gideon
Balthazar
Thaddeus
Zachariah

Corneluis is great, I just could never work out a shortening for it. Occasionally when I'm feeling silly I call my twins Horatio and Cornelius. I think we'd live a very different life with those names. I'd be richer and slimmer. DH would drive a big car. They'd have skiing lessons before they were 5

I can’t believe all the votes for james!
to me it’s such a big standard boring name
but each to their own

Also can't understand the love for James.
My favourites are:
Osian
Sebastian
Joslin
Saul

Gabriel
Peter
Will
Benjamin / Ben
Christopher / Kit
David

Used one of them

Never liked James - only commenting because there are so many on this thread

Lucien
Austin
Sebastian
Tate
But DH didn't feel the same so used a different name we both liked

Owen and James . I named DS Owen James.

Alejandro but couldn't use it as would be very odd for a fully English couple!

Also love
Nico
Luca
Etienne
Lars
Leif

Sebastian, Austin, Tate were in my top 5 husband didn't like any of them.

We went with a very popular name in the UK (we're overseas so it's not as popular here). It was in top 5 in England about 12 years ago.

What sort of name did you go for? :)

Ellis

Grayson
James
Mark

Rafe

Lawrence - DH strongly vetoed (boo!)

Apart from my DS' name (which has been mentioned a few times), I love (these were mostly ruled out by DH!):

Ezekiel (nn Zeke)
Henry
Gabriel
Zachery
Enzo
Wilfred (nn Wilf)

I friend of DS is called Cosmo...love that name

@SleepingStandingUp

My dad is a Cornelius. It’s shortened to Con.

Beauchamp. Loved it back in the day and still love it now. A character from a book. Love it.

Damien - for my lovely boy.