Give me boys names that have 'cool' nicknames

[UpInArms]

I cannot find one boys name that I love so I'm hoping to 'love' a nickname instead.

I cannot have a name beginning with the letter E as its the same initial as dd. I also cant have a name with one syllable due to our surname.

Family names that I like but cannot use are
Rueben and Marcus.

Any help greatly appreciated

Why can you not have a 1 syllable name?

Our DS is called Max Brown (Maximilian on his birth certificate). I think you have to be careful of short 1st and surname with girls but they sound strong on boys.

What about Felix?

Hm... thinking of shortnenings....

Joshua - Josh
Joseph - Joe
Charles - Charlie
Edward - Ned
Finley - Fin
Frederick - Freddie
Henry - Harry
Zacharius - Zac
James - Jim
Matthew - Matt
Oliver - Oli
Robert - Rob/Robbie
Thomas - Tom

Kaden- Kade
James- Jay
Leonard- Leo or Leon
Jacob- Jake
Bradley- Brad
Kier- Kie

Kai is nice on its own.

Nico?

Gabe? (Gabriel) Gray (Graham)

Our surname is the same as the end of Finley so if we had Finn as a name whenever he said his full name it would sound the same as Finley IYKWIM

It makes choosing one syallable names quite difficult

Raphael - Raffy/Raff

I do really like Raphael but DH says no as he thinks we would need to be mediterranean to use it

I like Grey as a nn but DH wont use Graham as its a family name

I like Joshua but its too popular

william.....bill, billy, will.

my ds is called nathaniel, nate for short.

lots of "old" names have good short forms, but i can't think of any right now!!!

Cant use William - family name.

I love Nathaniel and nate but does your ds end up being called Nathan?

My dd is Patrick and for some reason (nothing to do with me!) is known at school as Patch. He thinks this is seriously cool - he's 8!

I like Nathaniel and Nate too

NO!!! in fact, no one knows him at all as nathaniel, he has been nate or natey from day 1. he's nate in school on all his official forms.

am really trying to come up with names to suggest, but can't think of any!

Richard.

Just run it past DH and realised its a no go as it has the 'TH' sound which DH pronounces as 'F'.

So it also rules out Ethan etc

Daniel (Dan, Danny), Franklin (Frank), Raymond (Ray -- think Ray Charles), Nicholas (Nick, Nicky).

But I don't really know what sounds 'cool' to other people, so will slink off after that.

Joseph - Joe
Matthew - Matt
Stanley - Stan
Sidney - Sid
Christopher - Kit

Alfred
Albert
Frederick
Johnathon
Sidney

oops - just saw your comments about 'th' and the Finely clue. You can scrap absolutely all of my suggestions.

Finley

i have a Joseph and a Jacob

or Joe & Jake - which are pretty cool teenage to adult names.

which wasn;t my intention at all - as i used to call Joseph - 'Joby' when he was little ( it still slips out if i'm honest)

Jacob was Jakey - so they lend themselves to those yukky OTT mummy moments of little 'uns and also teenagery stuff too.

I do really like Jacob shortened to Jake. We once had a dog when I was a child called Jake,do you think that is a reason not to use it?

i don't think so, we had a dog called charlie - but i think thats a lovely name too.

beware though, i hear lots of jacobs ( down south)

DH loves Charlie but we cant have it because of our surname.

I live down South so may be put off Jacob if its really popular