HELP - boy's name (due SOON!)

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Thanks for the responses (and the brutality ), oh this is so hard!!!

I know what you mean about using Zachary anyway - part of me goes - well Isaac and Zachary are two very different names, and they can be called by their full-names when they are together... BUT it is dh's brother's son - that is close family, and in no way do we want the "big Zac / little Zach" scenario. Plus we don't want to announce the name and have family members think 'hmm, why did they do that?' I just don't want to have any reservations about it. But it is the name that speaks to me the most!

The others are not really standing out for me...

I think we are going to cross Wilder off the list - we like it but don't love it, and I think if we are going to go with something different like that we should have real faith in it. Also, it is dh that really likes Wil/Will, I am more ambivalent about it, I just didn't like William and thought Wilder might be an option.

My ds's name is Max.

I am not that into Xavier (although I like the whole beginning with an X thing), and don't have strong feelings about Joseph (and yes, I do like J names! there were more, like Jed and Jovan too). I have run some of the biblical type names past dh before (Noah, Jonah etc) and he doesn't like them (Gabriel is the exception.)

I actually don't like 'Ollie' all that much either, but I like Oliver, whereas Dh really likes Ollie.

Other name suggestions are welcome, but I do feel like we have considered and discarded pretty much every name that is out there already....

Can I say again: AAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHH!