Bramwell, Wilfred, Digby or Atticus (yes I know…)

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Aware all of these are a bit/a lot out there. Our elder DS is called Nathaniel and tbh I wish I’d saved his middle name for no 2 (Rowan) but too late now!

Digby (Diggy for short) - dh loves, I’m not sure
Bramwell (Bram) - I love, dh not sure, can anyone think of a good alternative long name that shortens to Bram?!
Atticus (Attie) - we both like but worry about associations to the character post Go Set a Watchman
Wilfred (Wilf but obvs he has the option of Fred if he chooses) - DH loves, I’m not sure and don’t like the Boris Johnson connection

Find boys names so hard! Any views? Alternatives which are unusual but less marmite?

Adonis
Aelred
Aidan
Akbar
Amos
Angelo
Athos
Balthasar
Cicero
Crawford
Cuthbert
Diarmuid
Eckhart
Elias
Evagrius
Fergus
Florian
Florizel
Gareth
Hawthorne
Herbert
Irenaeus
Ironside
Justinian
Kabir
Leonid
Lionel
Malcolm
Martin
Mungo
Nelson
Nirmal
Oswald
Percival
Petroc
Petrus
Prometheus
Qais
Quintilian
Romulus
Rustum
Savonarola
Sohrab
Teilhard
Toshiro
Urquhart
Valentine
Velasquez
Wallace
Wystan
Xerxes
Yves
Zidane

Bramwell is the name used on alot of Aldi foods, Bramwell pickles, cranberry sauce etc. I like Bram, Abraham.

Bertram (Bram nn)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertram_(name)

Go Set a Watchman has had no lasting impact - there was a flurry of interest when it was announced and published, but everyone quickly realised it was a money grab by Harper Lee’s relatives and should never have been released. No one is talking about it now. All the associations with the name are from TKAM.

He was Mr Rigsby.

I don’t know why people give children perfectly decent names and then shorten them. “Diggy” is just awful.

If you like Robin but DH doesn't, what about Robert? It's pretty rare these days and can be Rob or Bertie for short.

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Bram Stoker wrote two of my favourite stories.

Look them up on the ONS list and see where they feature if you don’t want to have a name that everyone uses. DC1’s name was 58th when we used it and there isn’t another one in her school (there are one or two others in the whole village) and DS’s name was 78th and he is also the only one at school (again, we know of another couple locally). People use such a huge variety of names these days that unless you go top 10, there are unlikely to be tonnes of them (we have 3 William’s in one class which is a top 10 name I think). I think there are two Wilf’s in the whole school of 250 children.

I know a Bramanie nn Bram. You can’t give Diggy as a nn! Let’s get jiggy with biggie Diggy. Afterwards a ciggie.

Love Atticus and Wilfred. Not so keen on Digby, but Diggy is a cute NN for a toddler.

And isn’t ‘Bramwell’ Aldi’s food brand? The ketchup is a brilliant, and a much cheaper, alternative to Heinz. But I digress….

Bram Stoker was an Abraham.

How about Branwell, after the Brontë brother?

Some less out there biblical names include:

Bartholomew
Elijah
Gabriel
Jonah
Tobias

(I like the sound of Nate and Gabe).

dont focus too much on nicknames Op. there is no guarantee that anyone besides you and your husband will use them. Nicknames are one of those things that just can’t be forced.

I have a pre-school age Bram in my family, short for Abraham. Absolutely love the name, don't know any others but my Dutch friend says Bram is fairly common in the Netherlands.

How about Isaac with Ike as a nickname?

Atticus means rugged coast but also a name denoting admirable qualities
Bramwell means broom or brambles
Digby means ditch or trench
Wilfred means desiring peace or friendship probably because Frederick means Peaceful ruler

Theres a definitive link in your choices with geographical features but I wouldn’t go for a name meaning brambles for example. I know most people aren’t interested in meaning but as I am
Id go for either

Wilfred or Frederick
Atticus

It’s not a sequel (although I accept it was promoted as such by the publishers to begin with), it’s a first draft that was extensively revised before publishing as To Kill a Mockingbird.

Hence the significant character change / behaviour of Atticus Finch.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Set_a_Watchman

All tte Abrahams I've known have been Abe for short. It's more natural to go for Abe than the unpleasant sounding Bram. I know who Bram Stoker is, thanks so don't need reminding that he wrote Dracula. Maybe in his time it was more common to shorten Abraham to Bram because I've not heard that shortening in modern times

I really like Digby - it’s a local surname used for many things round here (Dorset) Digby Hall, Digby Tap. The Digby family owned the castle. But then I use human names for my dog so have no issues with people and dogs having the same names 😂

Absolutely not. To all of them!

I like Bram as it stands. Apparently it usually short for Bertram, Abram or Abraham.
Bramwell sounds like the name of a product, such as jam.

Personally, I think Digby sounds like a dogs name. Wilfred/Wilf is becoming increasingly popular. Atticus is unusual (to me), I've only ever heard of the actor Atticus Schaffer with the name in real life.

Cassian and Caius are both becoming popular.
Jasper? Jonah? Rupert? Samson? Roman?

I know brothers who are Nathaniel and Dominic, and I think they sound good together.

Agree
Ours is called Ringo because he’s a star ⭐️

yeah I know - I’m just keeping it simple for Mumsnet.
My point was that Atticus had a character shift between books.

I love them all. Our boy isAtticus. But other than that Digby would be my favourite or Barnaby instead.

I don’t like Bram, it reminds me of Bram Stoker. The other 3 are fine but I’m not sure any of them is the same ‘genre’ as Nathaniel or Rowan

Digby is also a very shy mole in a lovely book called “pocketful of kisses” who has a tin of worms as his packed lunch! Bram is a lovely stand alone name from the Netherlands.
What about Edmund as a subtle call out to Aunt Whiteadder’s husband Nathaniel