Anonymous wrote:Graham

Sounds a little pretentious and people will always misspell it.

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 wrote:Or similar suggestions?

Graham .. immediate association ..Graham bread


Impropose Theo... as in
Theodore

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

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.

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.

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

Graham, Abraham, Simon, Oscar, Luca, Miles

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

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

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.