Five-name Friday: Boy name for Jaden’s brother

You have a sudden urge to brighten up your kitchen table, so you head out to the flower shop. While you examine the selection of potted daffodils, you strike up a conversation with a friendly lady who happens to be pregnant. At one point she mentions that she and her partner are having a hard time choosing a baby name. Then she tells you the gist of what they’re looking for:

Our two sons are Jaden and Jasper, but we don’t want another J name (or G name) for our third son, though we’d really love for all three names to still sound like a “set.” We like modern names and our surname sounds like the word “hatchet.”

“Do you have any suggestions?”

You’re a name-lover, and you could potentially give her dozens of suggestions on the spot. But you don’t want to overwhelm her, so you decide to stick to five helpful suggestions before buying your daffodils and returning home.

But here’s the fun part: Instead of blurting out the first five names you come up with (which is what you’d be forced to do in real life) you get to press a magical “pause” button, brainstorm for a bit, and then “unpause” the scenario to offer her the best five names you can think of.

Here are a few things to keep in mind as you brainstorm:

• Be independent. Decide on your five names before looking at anyone else’s five names.
• Be sincere. Would you honestly suggest these particular baby names out loud to a stranger in a flower shop?
• Five names only! All names beyond the first five in your comment will be either deleted or replaced with nonsense words.

Finally, here’s the request again:

Our two sons are Jaden and Jasper, but we don’t want another J name (or G name) for our third son, though we’d really love for all three names to still sound like a “set.” We like modern names and our surname sounds like the word “hatchet.”

Which five baby names are you going to suggest?