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

[Lelongducanal]

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?

If you like Rowan what about Robin?

The fact you (a) have known (how many?) Abrahams who go by Abe and (b) personally don’t like Bram are both irrelevant to the question of whether Bram is a shortening of Abraham - it is, and a well known one at that.

How about Clement? Or Theodore? Not wild on any of the names you've listed in afraid.

Ours is called Meredith because she’s needy like the character in Greys Anatomy 😂

our old cat was called Rowan - but he was a rescue and came with that name. I do like it.

Some great names in your list.

Suggestions-

Edgar
Barrington
Richard
Rupert
Gideon
Gilbert
Edwin

What about Aloysius? With either Al or Wiz for short.

Now, I'm fairly relaxed about names and like a bit of quirk, but Wiz, short for Aloysius, has broken me a bit.

I like Atticus and Wilfred. Bramwell too actually. Less keen on Digby but know one and know it gets love.

other suggestions

cassian
jasper
rufus
elias
ludovic
zachary
vincent
casper
rafferty
magnus
montague
tobias
franklin
cedric

Just out of curiosity, why didn’t you use the family names Robin and James for the first borns middle name?
And how about Robert as first name? Robert James?
I knew a Robert James growing up… well Robert, but he used his middle name and to friends he was Jimmy… we’d call up and ask for Jimmy and his mum would shout “Robert” up the stairs… 😂

I have a dog with the same name as my oldest. It wasn’t planned he was a foster we ended up keeping (dog not DS)

they just are known as BG and LG

I like Wilfred and Atticus.

i would avoid Isaac as the one we know gets teased with I suck….

How about
Christopher
Quentin
Clement
Vincent
Reuben

I wonder what sort of names you like?

The issue with comments on names is that we don’t know whether the other posters share our tastes…!

Ignatius (Iggy)
Lorenzo (Enzo)
Cornelius (Cory)
Barnabas (Barney)
Horatio (Raish)
Tobias (Toby)
Augustus (Gus)
Leopold (Leo)
Silas (Si)
Raffaello (Raffi)
Andersen (Andy)
Jeremiah (Jer / Jerry)
Sigfrid (Sig)
Eduardo (Ted)

I know myriad Roberts

Amadeus
Amilcar
Amral
Apollo
Athanasius
Attila
Augustine
Bartholomew
Bartimaeus
Charlemagne
Demetrios
Desiderius
Douglas
Emmanuel
Erasmus
Exupéry
Faiyaz
Feroze
Fidel
Franciscus
Gerard
Gesualdo
Guevara
Hannibal
Innocent
Jehangir
Jinghiz
Josiah
Kaveh
Kirill
Konstantinos
Luther
Mordechai
Moses
Nehemiah
Orion
Pesach
Quirke
Randolph
Saladin
Salvator
Serge
Thaddeus
Thelonious
Urban
Victor
Wilberforce
Winstanley
Xavier
Xenophon
Yehuda
Ziggy

Hannibal? Quirke? Innocent? Xenophone?

Homer
Gabriel
Felix
Joshua
Rupert (Bear is a cute nickname)
Gilbert
Seth
Raphael
Jago
Gideon
Emmett
Ellis
Brock

Amal
Bustamante
Cotton
Darius
Django
Endeavour
Fortitude
Gershom
Hildebrand
Hyacinthus
Igor
Jove
Jupiter
Karl
Lambert
Marius
Neville
Oakley
Oswy
Penn
Perseverance
Qimir
Rex
Rinaldo
Somerled
Skywalker
Teilo
Temperance
Umberto
Varro
Vijay
Wesley
Widsith
Wylde
Xander
Yvor
Zarathustra
Zebulon

Rupert! Bear! Yes yes this.
Orsino?

This! I think these are fine but I think most of the names suggested by OP and others are absolutely awful.

I hate them all (sorry!)

We have an Atticus next door, and whilst I'm all for unusual names, hearing his parents call 'Attie' sounds really pretentious to me (he is annoyingly precocious as well so that may well be influencing me). Out of your list I like Wilf the best (and it's the name of my lovely ex-FIL), The other two are ok, but Bramwell as others have pointed out is an Aldi brand, so maybe not!

I think Diggory is less Doggy than Digby.

There's also a character in Romeo and Juliet called Abram, which would shorten to Bram but not double up on the biblical front.

Shakespeare might be a good place to look for you: Caius, Bertram (nn Bram?), Corin, Hector, Fabian...

Always my first thought! "Diiiiiiggggbyyyy!" I like Digory too. I've loved that name since first reading The Magician's Nephew as a child :-D

Bertram was a proper cad.

How about:
Antony
Agamemnon
Ajax
Ariel
Bear
Benedict
Benvolio
Coriolanus
Duke
Duncan
Edgar
Emperor
Ferdinand
Ghost
Herald
Hotspur
Horatio
Jacques
Kent
Mercutio
Oberon
Orlando
Pericles
Rogue
Theseus
Titus
Troilus
Tybalt

are some solid Shakespearean names

You can also masculinise some of Shakespeare's women to get:
Celius
Cesario
Ganymede
Emilius
Portius
Mirando
Rosamundo
Valerius/Valerian