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HelpRe: Boy's name options... your feelings on these please
in reply to a message by Amphelise
Theo and Rowan would top my list. I also quite like Hamish, and I suppose it's a welcome change from the megapopular James (though there were cricket-playing brothers in New Zealand - perhaps twins? - named Hamish and James, which is sad indeed).
Seth is too breathy and Jonathan goes on and on without getting anywhere interesting. Jonty is abysmal and Jon looks like a spelling error. Felix is cheerful and bright, but given the creativity of children, anything that could shorten to Feely might not be a good idea. Fine for a mn, though. Jonah ... I really like both Joseph and Joel (too biblical with Daniel, perhaps? But so is Jonah!) and Joe is a wonderfully friendly nn, but Jonah just doesn't ring my bells. Such an aura of incompetence and ill omens for so many thousand years. No. Tobin is streets ahead of over-important Tobias, and Toby is delightful, but when I read your list I saw it as Robin, and I'm a pretty good proofreader! What about just Toby? Jasper is all Victorian melodramatic villain twirling his moustaches and plotting the heroine's downfall, and I love it! Only you know if your social circles can survive it: I read a lovely children's book years ago, forgotten the author and the title, but there was a Jasper character of whom it was said that he'd been named after a grandfather (or great-grandfather even?) and "it was nobody's fault", which is discouraging. But he survived it very well, apologising nicely to the owner of the TV rental shop after shooting out the TV screen in a moment of madness while watching a cowboy series. Drat - I'd like to read it again.
Seth is too breathy and Jonathan goes on and on without getting anywhere interesting. Jonty is abysmal and Jon looks like a spelling error. Felix is cheerful and bright, but given the creativity of children, anything that could shorten to Feely might not be a good idea. Fine for a mn, though. Jonah ... I really like both Joseph and Joel (too biblical with Daniel, perhaps? But so is Jonah!) and Joe is a wonderfully friendly nn, but Jonah just doesn't ring my bells. Such an aura of incompetence and ill omens for so many thousand years. No. Tobin is streets ahead of over-important Tobias, and Toby is delightful, but when I read your list I saw it as Robin, and I'm a pretty good proofreader! What about just Toby? Jasper is all Victorian melodramatic villain twirling his moustaches and plotting the heroine's downfall, and I love it! Only you know if your social circles can survive it: I read a lovely children's book years ago, forgotten the author and the title, but there was a Jasper character of whom it was said that he'd been named after a grandfather (or great-grandfather even?) and "it was nobody's fault", which is discouraging. But he survived it very well, apologising nicely to the owner of the TV rental shop after shooting out the TV screen in a moment of madness while watching a cowboy series. Drat - I'd like to read it again.
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