Am I boring to be thinking of calling my baby James?

[Two4One]

My baby will be here very soon and DH and I still haven't agreed on a name. I have spent hours poring over these threads about baby names and have come to the conclusion that I might like to call my boy James...

Is this what MNters call a "meh" name? I'm forever reading on here "What about Turquand?" and "How do you feel about Virgil?" and I wonder if I should be making a bit more of an effort. But I think James is a lovely name. Always have. Makes me think of my dear Grandpa.

Is it very important to his well-being that my child has a name outside of the top 100?

Is James ten-a-penny?

Please help...

Nothing wrong with Matthew or John either

It's lovely - don't feel you have to choose something outlandish if it's your favourite. When I had my DDs I probably spent days in total researching names and ended up with two very plain and popular ones, but have no regrets!

I like James very much indeed.

There is one in DD's reception class.

We do know a few Jamies, but they were christened Jamie from the start.

James is a lovely solid name. DD2 would probably have been James.

My dad and brother are both called James. Also my oldest nephew. May be a bit biased but its a lovely name and doesn't date either.

My son's middle name is James and I sometimes wish I'd used James as a first name. His first name is lovely, but really popular where we live. There are only about two boys called James in his school.

Wow! A mn name thread asking "should I call my child a lovely, classic, timeless name?"

You don't get them very often!

Yes! James is lovely, and fits in any situation. I would go for it (my dds have kind of girls equv of James, I went a bit more Celtic with my ds!)

sweetkitty - Matthew was our choice of boys name for dd1 and dd2, but for ds (in the middle) we had changed our minds and gone all exotic on boys and girls!

Matthew is lovely. Like James, or John, Andrew, David, Peter etc ... lovely classic boys names that huge amounts of people think are 'meh' or 'boring'!

James is a good name popular but not trendy and as others have said will not pre define him.

All the names I wanted were similar (John James Alexander David). Not "boys" names but names he could grow into.

I have just called my baby James. I am not boring at all

I had reservations about it when DP was campaigning for it because I thought it was boring an unimaginative, and DD's name wasn't ever in the top 100 so I wanted a similarly unique name for DS. But I didn't like any other name more really, and like others have said it's not obviously trying to be different, it won't pre-define him as any class, race, background, whatever. I think it will remain timeless and when he is my age babies will still be called James.

I have to say though I dislike Jimmy and nicknames for it so am practising my look of death for when anyone changes his name!

James is a great name; classic, strong and timeless

I like James although it wouldn't be what I'd choose.