Nathan or Nathaniel?

*Amy*

Which do you prefer>

I feel like Nathaniel would sound better than Nathan with our other son's names, but I am curious what others thinks.  DH prefers Nathan, but said we could name him Nathaniel and call him Nathan, but if we are going to call him Nathan I would rather name him that.  Opinions?
Any middle name ideas?

We finally are happy with our girl choices-we have 3 that we love:

Charlotte Jane

Julianne Claire

Caroline Joy

cera.rn

I prefer Nathan over Nathaniel, and I love Charlotte Jane!

BelleBaby

We have a Nathaniel in our family.  Some call him Nathaniel, some Nathan, others Nate.  So even if you name him Nathan, he might not go by that!

I prefer Nathaniel.  Just like my LO, I named him Benjamin and that's what I call him.  Everyone else can call him whatever, but I love the name Benjamin so that's what I'll call him.  I just like the more formal version of the name.

Nathaniel Philip
Nathaniel Charles
Nathaniel James
Nathaniel Oliver
Nathaniel Robert
Nathaniel Travis
Nathaniel Wyatt

I like all of your girls names. 

Hdawn910

I like Nathan better... my fiancee' name is Nathan Wayne (older name though)

as for girl names I really like Julianne Claire 

*Amy*

BelleBaby:

We have a Nathaniel in our family.  Some call him Nathaniel, some Nathan, others Nate.  So even if you name him Nathan, he might not go by that!

I prefer Nathaniel.  Just like my LO, I named him Benjamin and that's what I call him.  Everyone else can call him whatever, but I love the name Benjamin so that's what I'll call him.  I just like the more formal version of the name.

Nathaniel Philip
Nathaniel Charles
Nathaniel James
Nathaniel Oliver
Nathaniel Robert
Nathaniel Travis
Nathaniel Wyatt

I like all of your girls names. 

My boys both go by their full names-never have been called Tony or Jack so I want to name this one with the same idea in mind. 

lovemytwoboys

I prefer Nathan. I do kind of agree with you though that for some reason Nathaniel seems to go with your other sons' names a little better. I'm not quite sure why. That said, I would probably still go with Nathan, especially if that is what you are going to call him regardless.

I love your 3 girl name choices

Some middle name ideas:

Nathan Patrick
Nathan Riley
Nathan Andrew
Nathan Lucas
Nathan Isaac
Nathan Elijah
Nathan Phillip
Nathan Zachary
Nathan Joshua

taylorsue00

nathan over nathaniel any day.

and i knew a girl in high school named caroline joy, she went by Joy and she was a total s1ut!  but ofcourse you cant base a name on that! haha, its just what i think of sorry, but i like Charlotte Jane.

erin.m

I prefer Nathan over Nathaniel

Under.the.Rose

I know a Nathaniel who goes by Nathan/Nate and it works well. However if you are never ever going to call him Nathaniel, it might just make more sense to just go with Nathan. I think Nathan goes just as well with your other son's names.

Your girl names are very pretty! You'll just have to curb the JC/CJ nicknames... We have Claire picked out if we have a girl and are avoiding J middle names for this very reason. 

*Amy*

Under.the.Rose:

I know a Nathaniel who goes by Nathan/Nate and it works well. However if you are never ever going to call him Nathaniel, it might just make more sense to just go with Nathan. I think Nathan goes just as well with your other son's names.

Your girl names are very pretty! You'll just have to curb the JC/CJ nicknames... We have Claire picked out if we have a girl and are avoiding J middle names for this very reason. 

 

No worries here. I hate initial nicknames and have always used my kids full names, so that won't be a problem   The C and J are the first name initials of my mom and mil so that is why there is the pattern.

BelleBaby

*Amy*:

BelleBaby:

We have a Nathaniel in our family.  Some call him Nathaniel, some Nathan, others Nate.  So even if you name him Nathan, he might not go by that!

I prefer Nathaniel.  Just like my LO, I named him Benjamin and that's what I call him.  Everyone else can call him whatever, but I love the name Benjamin so that's what I'll call him.  I just like the more formal version of the name.

Nathaniel Philip
Nathaniel Charles
Nathaniel James
Nathaniel Oliver
Nathaniel Robert
Nathaniel Travis
Nathaniel Wyatt

I like all of your girls names. 

My boys both go by their full names-never have been called Tony or Jack so I want to name this one with the same idea in mind. 

I hear ya.  That's why Eli is just Eli.  We didn't want him to be Elijah, nn Eli.  We knew we would always call him Eli, so that's his name.  I figured Benjamin would get shortened by everyone but me, but that's okay.  I can call him Benjamin!

I love Nathaniel.

krogers0905

If you're going to call him Nathan then just name him Nathan. For the girl name I prefer Caroline Joy.

jessicadw

I prefer Nathan over Nathaniel and fwiw I love your girl names.

queenbone

DH and I both have uncles named Nathan.  But on his side Nathaniel is the big family ancestor.  So if we were to use it we'd go with Nathaniel.  However it is in our mn column so the only idea I have for a mn is Nathaniel James.

HappyMrsK

I like both Nathan and Nathaniel. I have a nephew named Nathaniel, family calls him Nathan and his friends call him Nate (he's in his early 20's).

I love Charlotte Jane and Caroline Joy! Personally, I'm a bigger fan of Caroline though.  

Laura & Harrison

Nathan

 

Caroline Joy

Shell24

I like Nathan as a name on it's own, but when it's right up against Nathaniel, I really like Nathaniel more!

KJKNAJ

Hi!

I, too, prefer Nathan over Nathaniel. I really like Nathan but won't use it because I don't really like Nate.

RhinoBaby

Nathan.  We are considering it as a boys name too!

tan110180

I prefer Nathan over Nathaniel.  And I know you didn't ask, but I love Charlottle!  So good!  GL! and Congrats!