Jonah or Wyatt?

[FreshScent]

Which do you prefer for a boy and why?

Jonah.

Wyatt is a surname. Americans name their children surnames as forenames. It's naff.

actually, Jonah . . . and the whale.

nope. neither one.

I don't like either of them, tbh. If I had to choose one, I'd go for Jonah because I like Wyatt less.

Wyatt Earp v Jonah and the whale, expat.

FS - if you like them both and can't choose, why not flip a coin. When it's up in the air you will probably find yourself hoping for one or the other, and if you don't, you may as well go with the coin!

• that method of decision making has served me well over the years!

Jonah...every time..it's a lovely name!

Vote for Jonah. Lovely name. I don't like Wyatt - too american.

I had a dream when I was pg with my first son that a mw passed me my baby and said you can call him Jonah. I called him Jojo and Jonah for the rest of the pg. When he was born I just didn't have the guts to name him Jonah so he became Joseph and he is stil Joe now. Good luck whatever you decide, it has to be your choice.

How about Jonas?

Jonah

I prefer Jonah.
No reason.
Wyatt-just don´t like it!

I prefer Jonah. Although I do like Wyatt, but prefer Jonah

I prefer Jonah- obviously only the best kind of parents choose to call their boys Jonah- but then I may be biased

Most definitely Jonah. I don't like Wyatt at all.

Jonah.

Wyatt is a surname, and too American (unless you are American, in which case, it is still a surname )

Jonah. It's a lovely name (I've loved it since the little boy in Sleepless in Seattle was called it) but my dh vetoed due to bad luck associations (very annoying). Not keen on Wyatt at all.

Jonah

Wyatt is a cowboy with bandy legs.

I couldn't get over the interchangeability of Jonah as a description of a luckless, bringer of doom type!

Wyatt is no good unless you really are a cowboy imo.

i know a lovely Jonah. Also you can say "Quiet Jonah!" but you can't say "Quiet Wyatt!"

Jonah.

Because it's a lovely name, and Wyatt is not.

LOL sunshiney

Yep, I'm with shoot..the classiest parents have a Jonah Mine is known as Jojo.
Wyatt is the kid in charmed as well. Yuck.

Why is Jonah meant to be unlucky? He got swallowed by a sea monster and didn't die? Luckiest man ever!

Jonah. Fab name.

Jonah, though reminds me of Grange Hill

Jonah (Noun)

a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him or her [after Jonah in the Bible]

(Collins Essential English Dictionary 2nd Edition 2006 © HarperCollins Publishers)

Jonah definitely.