A brother for Amos

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Please help. Baby boy due soon and we can't agree on names! I like names that are uncommon but not completely unusual / unheard of. Would like the name to have a strong meaning and sound nice when said with his brothers' name. We are finding lots of boys' names sound too harsh beside it!!

Our current list that we don't really love is:
Boaz
Solomon (too long?)
Simeon (would he be constantly called Simon?)
Shepherd
Jethro
Ozzie / Ozzy (too different?)
Abel
Elias
Gideon
Asa
Albert (nn Bertie)

Would be so grateful for your thoughts and suggestions!!

Yes, farmers who were in their 70’s in the 1980’s. Very popular names for flat cap wearing, lovely hard working men who held their trousers up with baler twine instead of belts. Proper salt of the earth true gentlemen.

That's really lovely to visualise our little man being like them!

I had Amos on my list, as well as Abraham (Bram). I also liked Inigo, Sacha, Solomon, Ezekiel, Elijah, Erasmus, Taliesin, Cosmo.

I love Elias, but too similar to Amos for me.

Cosmo
Ayrton
Drazik
Lovis
Wade
Fergus
Lincoln
Corbin
Gage
Vance
Elliot
Parker
Seth

No to Enoch and Abraham. What about Daniel or Noah?

Less Biblical names that give me the same vibe:

Anton
Basil
Calvin
Conrad
Edgar
Edwin
Ernest
Eugene
Everett
Gene
Ivan
Leon
Lionel
Nelson
Otto
Percy
Rudy
Sidney
Sylvan
Victor
Wallace
Walter
Wesley
Wilbur

Bartholomew

I like Elias and Albert best from your list. Abel and Solomon (nn Sol) re also quite nice.

How about

Koby
Bohden
Cyrus
Cian
Asher
Clay
Orson
Ivo
Bryce
Reid
Marcus

Amos and Joel
Amos and Micah

Love them!

Enoch is always going to remind people of Enoch Powell.

what about Arlo?

Also:

Levi
Caleb
Aaron
Samson
Jonah

You can't use Enoch, people will assume you are a massive racist.

With Amos I'd try to avoid anything

1. massively Old Testament (Micah, Gideon)
2. massively famer-ish (Jethro)

Ideas:
Linus
Magnus
Sebastian
Tobias

How about Galen?

Jude or Jasper

Amos and...

Arren
Orren
Athen

i immediately thought Seth but then I used to watch Emmerdale when it was emmerdale farm 😂

how about Sid?

I know an Amos but no sibling.

Judah or Jude
Levi
Ezra

Mr Wilks..

Eben

I actually love the idea of Ernest nn Ernie but couldn't swing it with husband! Wesley was on the list too :)

Thanks everyone for your helpful suggestions! Unfortunately we know a host of the more common biblical names: Ezekiel, Daniel, Noah, Micah, Jude etc etc which has made the search that bit harder!! Neither of us had heard of Enoch Powell so I'm not quite sure the reference would be widely known in our age bracket.

Such a tricky one when you love the first child's name so much.

Amos and ..
Adam
Herbert
Barry
Peter
Clement
Mark
Samuel
Paul

I love Amos. I've just had a baby and was going to call him Cedric which I love and it's unusual but Cedric's dad in HP is Amos 🙈

What is it you love about the name Amos, @ASuitableName ?
Do you want an OT name?
List of biblical names - Wikipedia

Do you want something that is short and 2-syllables?
Do you want something underused?

Do you want something that isn't related to the Old Testament?