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Unusual old names for boys

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PSL1990 · 16/07/2019 15:16

Could anyone give me some boys names that are old in origin and not modern sounding and also not typically v popular now e.g. not James, Henry etc

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LikeDolphinsCanSwin · 20/07/2019 20:15

Jolyon, really don’t like it though.

wizzler · 20/07/2019 20:11

Seth
Elijah
Ernest
Clive
Jude

EarlyModernParent · 20/07/2019 16:49

Randolph
Sylvester
Hugh
Jeremiah
Simeon

TreesoftheField · 20/07/2019 15:17

Isaiah
Byron

Antonin · 20/07/2019 14:24

Mortimer
Julius
Rufus
Ranulph
Clovis
Bevis
Otto
Kenelm
Godfrey
Kitchener
Fletcher
Reynard
Peregrine
Pascal
Linton/Lynton
Lionel
Hubert

AnneKipanki · 18/07/2019 13:29

Marmaduke

Skyejuly · 18/07/2019 13:28

Jeremiah

Skyejuly · 18/07/2019 13:27

Randall
Laurence
Duncan
Edwin
Ernest
Emmory

FishCanFly · 18/07/2019 13:23

Josiah

Biscuitsneeded · 18/07/2019 09:16

Gregory
Francis
Robert
Stephen

tdam · 18/07/2019 07:56

Monty, Chester, Ambrose and Franklin come to mind.

McShakey · 18/07/2019 00:17

Percy?

Whynotnowbaby · 18/07/2019 00:14

Terence, Kenneth, Alan, Edwin, Edmund, Francis

ABitOTT · 18/07/2019 00:03

Alan
Solomon
Amos
Ambrose
Peter
Kevin
Cornelius
Fabian
Timothy
Victor

springtime12 · 17/07/2019 23:16

Seth
Amos
Isaac
Josiah
Joseph

Tweetingmagpie · 17/07/2019 23:15

Ivor

isitwhatitis · 17/07/2019 23:14

Boris?

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 17/07/2019 23:12

Norman.
Kevin
Philip
Jeff.
Neil might be a good idea after Neil Armstrong to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the moon landing.

wildgirls · 17/07/2019 22:35

Jeez!!! Some of you are surely having a laugh?!!!

Sunshine1239 · 17/07/2019 22:32

Rupert
Maxwell
Ned
Wilf
Jude

LesChateaux · 17/07/2019 21:41

Humphry
Hector
Cedrick
Cyril
Alan
Cecil
Darius
Graham
Gordon
Barry
Walter
Walvin
Kelvin

AnneKipanki · 17/07/2019 21:26

Walter

ThePittts · 17/07/2019 08:33

Brian
Keith
Gary
Stephen/Steven
Barry/Barrie
Betram
Albert
Alan
Derek
John

AverageMummy · 17/07/2019 08:26

Peter / Nicholas

This is a really useful thread for me - thanks OP!

Lavenderblues · 17/07/2019 08:10

Lawrence
Arthur
Alfred
Frederick
Quentin
Vincent

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