Baby boy name conundrum- help!

[jaffacake20]

Hi everyone!

Expecting our first and much wished-for baby in October. We’ve known since our NIPT at 10 weeks that we’re having a baby boy, but 14 weeks on and we are no closer to agreeing a name! We tend to prefer more traditional names, his middle name will be Joseph after his brother, and surname begins with R and we don’t want alliteration so that rules out any R names.

My favourites:
Samuel
Jacob
Henry
Ben (probably Benjamin on BC)
George

Also like Jack, Miles, Luke and Elliot but not quite made it to my favourites list yet.

DP’s favourites:
Jonathan (would be called Johnny day-to-day)
William
Owen

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

Matthew
Thomas

Try each name with the surname but not with the middle name. Do the same with the diminutive if there is one.
Sam Robson
Samuel Robson
Jacob Robson
Jake Robson
Johnny Robson ...

Isaac?

I like your choices though, not quite so keen on your husbands. I would avoid Benjamin with Joseph as a middle name due to initials and think Jacob Joseph is a bit too samey.

daniel
joshua
isaac
lucas
edward
adam
robert
michael
david
matthew

Love Ben and William.

What about James?

We have similar tastes. In the end I have brothers Henry and Edward. So Henry is my favourite from your list :) although I think Samuel Joseph sounds better x

What a lovely names list! My favourites are Samuel, Jacob (not sure with Joseph as a middle though), Ben / Benjamin, George, Luke.

Do you like

Thomas
Edward
Max
Alexander
Louis
Zachary / Zac
Toby
Sebastian / Seb
Harry
James
Adam
Matthew
Nathan
Joshua
Isaac
Aaron
Ethan
David
Daniel
Nicholas
Arthur
Lewis
Charlie

Agree that you can not have Ben Joseph, and I would avoid any names than lend to a nickname with the J, - JJ, TJ, CJ, AJ, DJ etc

Henry is lovely.

Adam
Daniel
Timothy
Peter
Saul
David
Finley
Alistar
Lewis

Henry Joseph R and Miles Joseph R sound best. George is fabulous too.

Alan
Christian
Christopher
Emmanuel
Evan
Ezra
Francis
Franklin
Frederick
Jonathan
Laurence
Leonard
Mark
Micah
Nathaniel
Stephen
Theodore

Holden
Adam
Clay
Nathanial
Ian
Grant
Sean
Justin
Cole
Jay
Mason
Oliver
Evan

Henry, George and William are all lovely and all go well with Joseph.

Jonathan will stand out the most, very underused these days

Daniel
Alistair
Nicholas
Laurence

Laurence
Sebastian
Felix
Reuben are all great names .

William is fab, it’s just so timeless as along with Thomas and James it’s the only boys name that has never left the Top 50 in England and afaik has had similar sustained popularity in most other English speaking countries too.

It’s also surprisingly international so would serve him well if he travels- it’s Top 10 in the Scandinavian countries as well as Top 100 in about a dozen others. And of course thanks to William Shakespeare, it’s familiar enough to pronounce and spell even in countries where the name’s not well used in itself.

And the other William namesakes are just so interesting and plentiful from the Conqueror to Wilberforce to Blake to contemporary ones like Gates- you are spoiled for choice. Can you tell it was top of my boys list? 🤣 (others on the list included the aforementioned Thomas and James, as well as Edward and Alexander if it helps).

Of your other choices I also like Samuel (or rather I adore friendly sounding nickname Sam and don’t mind Samuel), I think elegant Henry has its charms and I feel Owen is surprisingly underused considering it’s nice sound and that it fits so well with current trends.

I also love Johnny but personally only as a nickname for very classic but now underused John (I know Jonathan is Biblical but it looks like a smoosh between John and Nathan to me -I do like Nathaniel though if going down that route).

From your list 0P, I like Samuel and Henry.
From your DP's I like Owen, but where I'm from it has been popular for quite a while.
I also like Elliot.

Don't worry OP, it will come to you. I had a whole list of names when my DS was born and we ended up naming him something entirely different once we held him. It sometimes helps to write the names out on paper with the first, middle and last name to see how it looks. Someone once told me think about how their name will look on a desk plaque or business card. That helped me to pick the name combinations for both of my DC. Congratulations on your soon to be sweet baby boy ❤️

Liam
Caleb
Daniel

My favourites, inspired from your list...

John Joseph R - Johnny
Benjamin Joseph R - Ben
George Joseph R - George
William Joseph R - Will

James
Daniel
Henry
Edward

My DP is called Jonathan so I am biased but I think that is a lovely name. His nn was Johnny growing up, however he now goes by Jono as an adult (although his family still call him Johnny).

Sorry don't like your partners list, from yours definitely Henry, my brothers name.

You can’t have Ben(jamin) Joseph and give him the initials BJ, poor child!

Jack, Jonathan and Jacob would give him the initials J J. He may well end up with that as a nickname at school, which you might love or hate.

I don’t really like Eliot, it’s too faddy for me. I think it will date. Owen and Miles are nice enough but not in the same classic, biblical tradition of your other choices. The others are all lovely 🤩

Wow, thanks everyone for your replies!

I had completely missed the BJ issue with Ben, so that might move down the list a bit! Miles has also been moving up the list a bit in the last few days! I expect we will end up with a list of 3 or 4 names, some he likes and some I like, and then see what he looks like when he’s here!

I think Samuel is my ultimate favourite, and DP hasn’t suggested any other names for a while, so I might broach this option with him again…

Alexander Joseph - Aj, Alex, Ally, Xander
Alistair Joseph
Arnold Joseph
Skipped out B for what pp said about BJ😅
Christopher Joseph - Chris, Topher, Kit
Caleb Joseph- CJ
Connor Joseph
Cassian Joseph- Cas
Daniel Joseph- Dan, Danny
Declan Joseph
Ethan Joseph
Edward Joseph- Ed, Eddie, Teddy
Edwin Joseph- Ed, Eddie, Teddy
Evan Joseph
Emerson Joseph
Frederick/Freddie Joseph
Franklin Joseph- Frankie
George Joseph
Harrison Joseph
Hendrix Joseph
Henry Joseph
Isaac Joseph
James Joseph
Julian Joseph
Jacob Joseph
(all nn JJ)
Luke Joseph
Lucas Joseph
Louis Joseph
Matthew Joseph- Matt, Matty
Maximus Joseph- Max
Marcus Joseph
Montgomery/Monty Joseph
Noah Joseph
Nathaniel Joseph- Nathan, Nate
Oliver Joseph- Oli
Phillip Joseph- Pip
Quentin Joseph
Robert Joseph
Robin Joseph
Reuben Joseph
Rowen Joseph
Rupert Joseph- Rue
Sullivan Joseph- Sully, Van
Sebastian Joseph- Seb, Sebby, Bastian
Theodore Joseph- Theo, Teddy
Thomas Joseph- TJ, Tom, Tommy
Wilfred Joseph- Wilf
Zachary Joseph- Zac