Thoughts on Elijah James?

[ThisLuckyHelper]

I absolutely adore Elijah I have friends who have sons that are named Elijah and people love that name. James is my hubbys name so I picked that for the middle name. Thoughts on the two names together??

The two names are nice in themselves but the two J sounds together are a bit jarring.

I think its lovely 🙂

Love it!

Gorgeous. Elegant, timeless but also cool. Great names.

Lovely names, but it does sound like Eli with a stutter on the James. But in reality it's not going to be spoken out loud very often. Could you add another middle name before James to help it flow better?

I have an Elijah. I think it’s the most gorgeous name and have done since the first time I heard it. It really suits my gorgeous boy.
Elijah James sounds lovely together I think.

They sound good together to me 😊

Lovely names and lovely together!

I have friends who have sons that are named Elijah How many of them?
James is a very common middle name and doesn't flow with the first name.

I think it’s lovely. I really like both names avd even suggested Elijah for our DS but DH was adamant that he didn’t want any biblical names for them.

Love it!

Lkie EJ as a nn too

Fabulous

They are both nice individually but don't go together well.

It's up to you. I think I'd want to choose something different to the name my friends have chosen for their son, but it's each to their own. As long as you think they'll be ok with you using it too? (Some people can be really funny about 'name stealing', even though obviously nobody owns a name)

I've never been a fan of Elijah, personally, but it's not my baby.

Elijah James is fine.

Other options you don't want to be too matchy with your friends ..

Elio James
Elliott James

Nice.

Quite a lot of Elis and Elijahs about but it seems to have tailed off recently

It's an absolutely gorgeous name.
I wouldn't worry about the j-j sound. No-one is going to call him Elijah James on a day to day basis.
The only part that would put me off is having multiple friends with sons the same name But, it didn't used to bother people when they mainly picked from a small name pool (Christopher, Matthew etc) so if it doesn't bother you, great).

I've never been a fan of Elijah Me neither, and Eli is horrible.
Elliott James is far less babyish

would put me off ... multiple friends with sons the same name This.

I don't think the name is gorgeous.

It makes it a bit of a tongue twister - I just tried saying it and it came out sounding more like Eliza James

One of my sons two middle names are Elijah James so I love them together

Quite like it.

James is one of those middle names like Rose that makes everything sound lovely.

James is one of those middle names like Rose that makes everything sound lovely. meh

I think James Elijah flows better. Something about the "jah-jae" in the middle of Elijah James sounds awkward.

Lovely OP. I like both names and I think they work together just fine. They're two of the nicest and most sensible names I've seen on MN for a while.

@Mochudubh , it flows better but the father is James, so they'd probably be James Middlename Helper and James Elijah Helper, and being known by your middle name is a PITA.