Little brother's name

[ab03]

We are struggling with names for our boy due early next year, he'll be a little brother to Elizabeth who we are calling Elsie while she's little. If this baby had been a girl she would be Beatrice or Dorothy, but we're not sure now it is a boy.

My favourites that DH has vetoed are Arthur (he says too trendy), Edward (doesn't like matching initial with sister), Fraser (flat no) and Joseph (too biblical!?). His favourites are Jonathan, Harry, or Benjamin, which to be fair we had agreed on for our first but have since become friends with a Ben so I now find it weird!

There are lots more we each kind of like but we're not finding much in common! We had a much better list of names we both liked for girls but I feel like we've been through every boys name going now and need to start fresh. I would have said our taste was established but not too popular names but I don't know any more!

Family names we can't use are Alexander, Charlie, Thomas and Sebastian

Love Benjamin!

Elsie and Francis
Elsie and Wyndham
Elsie and Joel
Elsie and Luke
Elsie and Jonah
Elsie and Theodore
Elsie and Tobias
Elsie and Rupert

William
Samuel

I love Elsie Beatrice and Arthur so we may have similar taste and mine are called Henry and George. I also love Albert (Bertie and Elsie could be cute).
Elsie and Oliver/Ollie?

With Bertie and Ollie the nickname kind of 'matches' Elsie nickname.
Or else Elsie and a one syllable sibling.
Elsie and Jude?
Elsie and Frank?

I love Jonathan. Names with a similar vibe that I also like - Simon and Robert.

One of my favourite boys names ever is Willem. Another is Rupert. And they both sound sweet with Elizabeth…

Elsie and Roo is super cute.

Joseph.

I love Benjamin. Wouldn’t put me off that you’re friends with a Ben.

Roberts
Timothy
Lucas
Guy
Nicholas

Rafferty
Isaac
Jude
Finlay
Juno
Reuben
Benedict
Dominic
Henry
Oliver

Too Biblical. According to OP's DH.

OP your DH sounds like mine, I had Samuel vetoed as "sounds like a middle class person trying to be working class" (no, I have no idea either).

William, with the nickname Billy?

Elsie and Billy sound cute

Jonathan is a great name, very simpatico with Elizabeth. Long due a revival. Elsie and Jonny are very cute together.

I like all your ideas - Harry is my favourite and goes beautifully with Elizabeth nn Elsie.

How about

George
James
Samuel
Matthew
Adam
Jonah
Max
Zachary / Zach
Isaac
Louie
Frederick / Freddie
Lewis
Nicholas
Christopher
Daniel
Robert / Robbie / Bobby
Toby
Oliver

Frederick
albert
alfred
wilfred
theodore
henry
christopher
ralph
stanley
daniel
nicholas
william
louis
george
leonard
vincent
jasper

I immediately thought Francis would be amazing for you but noticed a previous poster beat me too it. Could always use Frank as a nickname.

Some other suggestions:
Elizabeth and Isaac

Elizabeth and Grant
Elizabeth and Wilfred
Elizabeth and Peter

William. I know you can’t use Charlie but I was going to say you can’t anyway - can’t do consecutive monarchs! I find skipping one monarch to William acceptable though and it is a lovely name.

Boys names are SO hard, feels like there’s so much less choice than girls!

I’d go Elsie and Nicholas, personally. I think Nicholas is the perfect name (couldn’t use it for mine!).

Or Dominic??

Stephen/Stevie?

I agree. I also knew a Jonty (full name) years ago and always thought that was pretty cool.

Elsie and Jonty?

Benjamin all day long for me.

My sons name lol and it's just perfect

Thank you for all the suggestions, I'm going to put together a new list I can run through with DH! I like Isaac but think DH already said that was too biblical as well! I like Jonah and Joel as they're similar to Joseph and I think go well with Elsie but imagine DH might have the same problem with them.

Also like Nicholas but struggle with the idea of a baby Nick, it feels too grown up!

Could Jonathan be shortened to Joe? I don't really like John/Jonny for the respective boringness/condom associations! I quite like Jonty though

We haven't talked about Jasper, Rupert or Francis at all so will definitely suggest them. Also haven't talked about Frederick as I quite liked Alfred or Wilfred instead to get to Freddie, but DH thinks they're too trendy.

For some reason I find William a bit boring, even though it's not much different to other names I do like! And a few others mentioned I like but are friends/friends' children (Dominic, Peter, Christopher, George)

Definitely have some more to talk about though, thanks all!

Elizabeth is a biblical name, @ab03 .

Yes, I think I am drawn to biblical names! But I think the problem with some of them is that DH can't think of other references and thinks they're mainly used by very religious parents. Not saying he makes any sense!

Ivan, Guy, Leo, Robert or Frederick

Really like Jonathan!

Joshua?

How about Benedict instead of Benjamin?

Also Tobias, Toby