Boy names

[amspeck-myworld.livejournal.com]

Franklin in an honouring name to me, and I go back and forth on whether I want to use it as a first name or put it in my family's traditional second middle name spot.

So, which boy set do you prefer

The one with Franklin as a first name:
Franklin Reuel David, Gregory Ittai Nelson, and Zachary Admiel Nathaniel

or the one with Franklin as an honouring name:
Gregory Reuel David, Zachary Admiel Franklin and Theodor Ittai Nelson


Also, do you prefer Zachary as a full name or as a nickname for Zachariah?

Comments

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I prefer the one with Franklin as an honouring name!

And I prefer Zachary as a full name. I think Zachary Admiel Franklin is great.

[lustdumpster.livejournal.com]

zachary is too long to be a nickname for anything, really. and i much prefer it to zachariah.

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

I like Zachary Admiel Franklin the best.

[pythianlegume7.livejournal.com]

I love the name Franklin, its way underrated.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

i like zachary better than zachariah. i've never heard zachary as a nickname for zachariah. it's always been a separate name in my mind.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I definitly prefer Zachary as full name; since it is a perfectly fine first name on it's own, I think that it'd be weird to make that the nickname, instead of Zac.

I like Zachary Admiel Franklin, so I like that set the best.

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

I like Franklin as a first name or as a middle, but I like Theodor better than Franklin, so I'm voting for that boy set. I'd probably go with Theodor, Franklin, and Zachary if it was me, though, because I'm not a huge fan of Gregory. It's not bad, just NMS. I like most of your names, though:)

As for Zachary . . . it drives me insane to see full names being used as nicknames. For example, Nathan as a nickname for Nathaniel. It's not a nickname for Nathaniel, it's a name on its own. They're both more likely to be shortened to Nate than anything else, so why have to explain to people "He goes by Nathan as a nickname for Nathaniel, not Nate," when you could just say "He goes by Nathan, not Nate." It just makes life so much easier.

So my theory on Zachary vs. Zachariah is that if you're going to use Zach as a nickname, pick whichever one you like better. If you're going to call him Zachary, just name him Zachary, since it's a full name on its own. If it was an issue of naming him Zach or naming him Zachary, I'd say go with Zachary because the full version is always better as a given name, but since Zachary and Zachariah are on equal grounds in this regard, I'd go with the one that you're going to call him.

[seksimaggie.livejournal.com]

In my opinion, Zachary and Zachariah are both nice names and both work as full names. Like Nathan and Nathaniel.

I would say Franklin was better suited as a middle name just because I don't really care for it and personally wouldn't want to use it as a first name, but I completely understand wanting to honor someone.