Middle name for James

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We love James as it's a classic, traditional, can be shortened with nicknames etc.

We'd like a bit of an interesting middle name - but nothing too out there, as we feel as though two traditional names e.g. James Henry might be a bit too meh?

Has anyone got any nice traditional (but slightly unusual) names they can suggest? Our last name is 3 syllables so ideally nothing too long!

I know many will probably smirk but Dean.

I know James Dean 😁

But I think it sounds lovely.

I think James Henry is lovely.
‘I like middle names to mean something, do you not have any family names to use ?

We have a James Stanley

I really like James Henry actually! :)

Yes we love a name with meaning - James is a family name, and DS1's first and middle names are both family names too. We don't have any obvious boys names that we can use which we have a connection to and which we like/work. The only options we've come up with so far are Adam (family connection) and Aubrey (quite unusual and also happens to be the name of a family friend). Thanks for your responses so far!

Marcus sprung to mind. Not sure why.

If you like fairly traditional, how about William, Alexander, Joseph, Arthur?

Interesting but not too out there middle names for James. I think names starting with a vowel flow nicely with James.
James August
James Benedict
James Edmund
James Evander
James Lucien
James Orlando
James Raphael

Alexander immediately came to mind, although not sure if that's too long for you.

Russell

James Conrad
James Cassius
James Eden
James Evan
James Harry

James Aubrey sounds really nice

James Abel
James Daniel
James Martyn
James Corran

My James, is James Matthew

James Patrick
James Peter
James Robert
James Richard
James Matthew

or, if you are giving him your husband’s surname, what about your surname as a middle name?

James River
james rowan
james caspian
james peregrine
james everest
james cosmo
james ocean
james apollo
james atticus
james robin
james phoenix

I think you need two syllables. My first thought was William (or is that technically 3 syllables?) but I think James Henry sounds good, and I also quite like James Michael, even though I don't usually like Michael! Weird...

James...

Flynn
Quinton
Patrick
Nicholas
Cole
Ezra
Eijah
Hayden
Isaac
Zechariah
Troy
Sean
Ryan
Frederick
Louis
Joel
Mica
Lyle
Ross

I quite like James Henry and James Adam, but not so much James Aubrey.

Agree with a PP that James Alexander would be great (could be biased as my son is Alexander James 😁)

Other suggestions
James August
James Luca
James Cassius
James Theodore
James Benedict
James Benjamin
James Rory
James Conan

I have a James Gabriel

Mine is James Thomas - both family names.

James has a very long tradition in my family and usually the middle name was the mother's maiden name.

We've had things like James Jones Surname and James Kershaw Surname.

We didn't do it for our James as our surname is double barrelled and felt 3 surnames was too much. That said, it would have sounded pretty cool.

James Douglas
James Edward
James Patrick

Robert
Thomas
David
Finlay
Aiden
Connor

James David

My sons first and middle name has been mentioned several times on this thread and I'm absolutely beaming! 😍

You all have superb taste in names!!

James Robert then you call him Jim Bob. 🙂