Max, Rafe or Joseph (Joey)

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Help so stuck on what to call are 3 week old son, we already have a Jack and Tommy which do you think goes best Max, Rafe or Joseph (Joey for short)

Max is my favourite

I think with your older boys names, Max goes best, but it's also my favourite of the 3.

Max goes the best. I like Joseph (but much prefer Joe to Joey). I wouldn't choose another J name though.

I dislike Rafe and think it's a very different style to your other children's names.

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Max or Joseph. I dislike Rafe as it’s like a ghost-rafe and too similar to the word rape

If Tommy is Thomas, Joseph (Joey) is of the same era.

Our class budgerigar was called Joey.

My favourite is Max, but it sounds a bit too much like Jack.
Rafe - I don't like it
Joseph - fine. Joe is better than Joey, but Tom is better than Tommy (my taste not yours?).

I'd pick Max.

Joseph with Joey as a nickname is sweet and less common than you’d think!
Rafe I do love but I’ve met one who pronounces it as Raff-ee and one who pronounces it as Ray-f which when I child says it sounds like a horrible crime beginning with R!
Max is nice too but I prefer Joseph/Joey and think it goes nicer with your kids names x

So your children are Thomas (Tommy) John ( Jack)?
I think Joseph (Joe, Joey) goes really well with the other names.
I like Joseph and I like Max I don't think Rafe is similar at all to your other DS'S names.
The name Max has become quite common now too.

Not Joey. It’s slang for a condom. At least where I was brought up.

Max goes well and is a lovely name
I have a soft spot for Joseph

A ghost is a wraith.

Definitely Joseph, and Joey is very cute as a nn.

I have a Joseph. He was called JoJo when he was little, which morphed into Joe as he got older. He doesn't like Joey.

Surely the name posh people pronounce Rafe is spelled Ralph.

I've never heard this.

Love Joseph, really dislike Joey, I think Joe is lovely though. Jack is also fabulous.

I love Max! Joseph nn Joey is a favourite of mine too. Rafe is ok but not for me.

Joseph (Joe) was my first choice for a boy (but I had girls, and don't like their names nearly as much as I like Joe).

Max works nicely with your other kids names. Rafe is too trendy imo and while I like Joseph I think it’s nice if each of the boys have different initials.

I like Rafe best (I have one so am biased) but imo Max works best with your other boys.

Max

I like Joseph best too, but out of interest, how do you pronounce Rafe is not either Rayf or Raffee?

So many threads on this and yes, Rafe is a newer spelling that sounds the same as Ralph.

It's a name I'd avoid for all the confusion round spelling, pronunciation etc. Even if the OP is clear in her mind, others will constantly get it wrong/consider it wrong etc etc.

Max.