Anonymous wrote:What is your background? Is your family Irish, English, etc? I always think it seems strange when names don’t match the heritage

This is one of the more ridiculous things I've read here. Based on their grandfathers my sons should be Bronislaw and Adomas. They have names that were on the first page of this thread.
Most of these are great names, though I personally vetoed Christopher because I can't stand "Chris".
My son is in first grade and his class contains Matthew, John, James, Patrick x 2, Michael, and Edward (only one who uses a nickname).

David
Kevin

Some that I haven’t yet seen posted here much:

Peter
Victor
Samuel
Francis
Edmund

Aaron
Jacob

Gregory

Adam, Nicholas, Thomas, Andrew are some of my favorites.

Anonymous wrote:Samuel, Michael, Daniel, Steven, Jeffrey

The classic spelling is Stephen, but many people mispronounce it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Need help with classic boy names.

Names we like: Patrick, John, Benjamin, Christopher.

But can’t both solidly agree on one. Suggestions?

Those are good names. I like John and Benjamin. I don't think I've met a bad one yet. Jack and Ben are not terrible shortenings.

The Pats and Chris's are more questionable. And invariably, your Patrick and Christopher will become Pat and Chris for most.

Perhaps consider Samuel. Or George. Or Lucas.

John does not need shortening, and Jack is overused.

Anonymous wrote:Johnathan

Do you mean Jonathan?

What about Alexander/Alex?

Scott?

Jack is the most classic name imho.

Gregory (Greg)
Andrew. (Drew)
George
Mark
Franklin
Eric
Alexander (Alex)
Robert (Rob)
Ian (Scottish for John)

I like all of your choices, especially John and Benjamin.

I think you’ve had a lot of great suggestions. I’d like to add:

Timothy
Daniel
Tobias (Toby)

Matthew
Joshua
Daniel

Anonymous wrote:Need help with classic boy names.

Names we like: Patrick, John, Benjamin, Christopher.

But can’t both solidly agree on one. Suggestions?

Those are good names. I like John and Benjamin. I don't think I've met a bad one yet. Jack and Ben are not terrible shortenings.

The Pats and Chris's are more questionable. And invariably, your Patrick and Christopher will become Pat and Chris for most.

Perhaps consider Samuel. Or George. Or Lucas.

Samuel, Michael, Daniel, Steven, Jeffrey