Henry or Graham?

[Anonymous]

We know several of each in both kids' classes - kids are in pre-K3 and 1st grade.

I really don't like the name Graham, honestly. Henry is a classic but there are SO MANY.

[Anonymous]

I love the name Graham, but DH shot it down (twice). Pierce and Shepard are my boys, instead.

[Anonymous]

Graham, Abraham, Simon, Oscar, Luca, Miles

Those were all on our list. We have a Henry. There are a million kids named Henry.

[Anonymous]

We have a Henry. I see people here comment all the time how popular it is. I see it’s #16 most popular boys’ name nationally and #3 most popular boy name in DC, according to 2018 social security name list. However, our Henry is 5 and in all the activities/classes we’ve been in so far, there’s only ever been 1 other Henry, during 3k preschool. No one else in our friend group, neighborhood, or family has a kid named Henry. The boys names we have met the most of: Liam, Oliver, James, William, Benjamin, then all the -son names (Hudson, Mason, Jackson, etc) and -ton/-don names (Landon, Preston, Colton—yes we’ve met 3 Coltons recently)

Anyway, just to point out it’s definitely popular but popular names now aren’t nearly as common as the popular names were a generation ago. It’s just luck if you wind up with multiples of one name in school/activities but it’s not that likely statistically so not something you need to really worry about that much, IMO.

And we still love the name Henry

[Anonymous]

i have a 14 year old henry and the name was 109 in popularity when i used it (just looked that up out of curiosity) now it's 16th.
i hear henrys everywhere i go with my kids. if you don't hear it, you don't get out much or you're choosing not to acknowledge it. it's so, so common.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i have a 14 year old henry and the name was 109 in popularity when i used it (just looked that up out of curiosity) now it's 16th.
i hear henrys everywhere i go with my kids. if you don't hear it, you don't get out much or you're choosing not to acknowledge it. it's so, so common.

PP above. I do hear it a lot, on the playground, etc. But we have only had one other actually in a class or activity with us.

[Anonymous]

When you look at the baby after he's born you'll know what his name is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or similar suggestions?

Graham .. immediate association ..Graham bread


Impropose Theo... as in
Theodore

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like both. Graham might win because the market is so saturated with Henrys right now. For similar names, what about:

Stuart
Reed
Griffin

Better way to spell it is Reid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Graham

Sounds a little pretentious and people will always misspell it.