Help us with something along the lines of Joseph/Jesse

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DP and I are expecting DC 2. Have a girl name picked but struggling with a boy name.

I am 35 weeks so feel like time is running out but also haven't seen anything I really love.

DP has floated Joseph.

I think it's ok but the more I think about it the less I like it, because:

• not keen on Joe as a nickname and that's probably inevitable
• Joseph Stalin, Joseph Fritzel, I can't shake those connotations off now that they're in my head.

I quite like Jesse. DP not keen because:

• it sounds like a girl's name (Jessie)
• doesn't like Jess as a nn

DS1 name starts with R.

I love Joseph, Joe as a nickname is pretty inevitable though. That's also a plus side.

Jesse - to close to the girl equivalent for me.

How about -

Matthew
Isaac
James
John
Jacob
Joss (one of my favourite)
Robert
Raymond
Reece

Jonah
Jacob
Theodore
Lawrence

Samuel

John - Johnny, Jack, Jock
David - Dave
Christopher - Chris, Christy, Kit
Michael - Mike, Mick
James - Jim, Jimmy, Jimbo

I like Gabriel /Gabe
Sebadtian/ Seb

Jacob, Joshua, Jonah

Joseph in another language? Giuseppe or Yosef or Joscha?

It's a shame about the associations because I don't think either were actually called Joseph. I think Stalin was Lozeb and Fritz with a 'z'.

What about combining it with a middle name, I'm sure I heard of a John Joseph known as Jo Jo.

What about Jude?