Boy names

[tarareach]

Hi there,

Needing some help with boys names.

We are having our first baby in December, we are both Christians and love names with Biblical meanings.

We love:

Elijah
Zaccariah
Thomas (more so me)

Our son's second name will be Johnston.

Thanks so much! :)

First baby, biblical..what about Adam?

James
John
Mark
Joseph
Benjamin
Noah
Michael

Also look at lists of Patron Saint names, and their stories.

I like Elijah Thomas if you've not picked a middle name yet.

Elijah Thomas goes well

Or

Jonathan means gift of God
Gabriel means God is my strength
Simon means listening or hearing
Lemuel means devoted to God
Isaiah means Salvation of the Lord

Noah
Elias
Benjamin
Levi
Reuben
Gidion
Gabriel
Jacob
Thomas
Aaron
Ethan
Daniel
Joel
Isaac
Nathanael

All of my favourite boy names were Bibical.

Current favourites:
Silas
Jesse
Elias
Malachi
Isaac
Joel

I did like Elijah when I was pregnant but my husband didn't like the nickname Eli so make sure you're happy with any nicknames he may get.

Elijah or Zachariah Thomas are really nice - I love Eli or Zac for short.

Thomas is also one of my favourite names, and not so commonly used any more. Thomas Elijah would be great.

I also love Isaac, as another option.

I much prefer Thomas to your other two options.

I prefer Zachary to Zaccariah, which feels too much of a mouthful to me. Elijah is quite a mouthful too, I prefer the simplicity of Eli.

Have you considered Isaac?

Normally in a choice like this, I would always go for the perennial popular classic - Thomas, as classic names are great since they are least likely to give away age, background, nationality etc .

BUT in this case you have a pretty popular surname too and there is likely to be a fair few Tom Johnson’s about if that matters to you. So in your case I might be tempted to go for Zachariah or even simpler Zachary, as Zac Johnson sounds lovely too and is going to be less commonplace. Either way I’d make sure you like the shortenings of each name - as I think even Elijah (probably my least fave of the 3 personally) might get shortened to Eli.

Zaccariah looks wrong.
You can't go wrong with Thomas.

Thomas Johnston has shades of John Thomas which is cockney slang for a penis.

If you like Biblical names, there are so many others. How about archangel Michael or Gabriel?

😂

Elijah from me.
What about Caleb, that's a good ✝️ name

Gabriel, Josiah and Emmanuel are great biblical names.

Matthew
Christopher
Noel
Peter
David
John
Isaac
Isiah
Noah
Simon
Daniel
Paul

Elijah - I like Elijah but know quite a few. I prefer Elias as its a bit more uncommon and I like the ias ending

Zaccariah - not a huge fan, but am really fobd of Zachary

Thomas (more so me) - its nice enough. I prefer as a middle name

Are you looking for suggestions?

Have you considered

Tobias
Jonah
Joel
Isaac
Ezekiel
Solomon
Simeon

Thomas is my favourite from your list.
Also like Gabriel and Adam.
And Tobias!

I like Elijah

jude
jesse
joseph
jacob
isaac
peter
john
benjamin
elias
silas
ethan
seth
Christopher

Another vote for Thomas. With your surname, wee TJ is very cute! I have a 2 yr old Thomas so I’m biased, but we’ve had lots of compliments on the name.

Sorry OP, also goes to John Thomas for me!

I like Matthew and Nathan.

Tom Johnston doesn't flow well IMO