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Old fashioned but uncommon boy names

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HolyMusicalBman · 01/02/2021 09:04

I love uncommon old fashioned boy names. Please give me se more to add to my list, I like ones like: Tristan, Beaumont, Hugh etc

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Mykittensaremyfriends · 03/02/2021 23:54

Jeremiah/Jeremy
Brett
Clive
Douglas
Leonard
Desmond

DuaLipaSuction · 03/02/2021 23:44

There are some great names in this list from the 1880s including Lancelot and Cuthbert.

I'd probably give Enoch amiss though...

JesusAteMyHamster · 03/02/2021 23:39

Aubrey.

TheWitchwithNoName · 03/02/2021 23:38

Aloysius

MerryMarigold · 03/02/2021 23:36

Bernard
Lawrence

TheVanguardSix · 03/02/2021 23:34

Aelred
Norman
Neville
Elmer/Elmar
Cyril
Edric
Alan
Ernest
Basil
Humphrey
Errol
Raymond
Redmond
Roald
Orson
Gordon
Howard
Clement
Claude
Ambrose
Aubrey
Ansel
Sheldon
Auden
Emerson
Adlai
Abraham
Spencer

Ellmau · 03/02/2021 23:21

Roderick
Alaric
Lionel
Geoffrey
Ursus
Wulfric
Waldo

funnyoldonion · 03/02/2021 18:18

Norbert, Cecil, Nesbit, Ned, Norris, Cuthbert, I love names like this!

LetItGoGo · 03/02/2021 18:14

I like Frank as name in its own right or as a diminutive of Francis.

FawnDrench · 03/02/2021 18:11

Clive
Augustus
Aloysius
Dorian
Lance
Roger
Sigmund
Uriah
Saul

Sexnotgender · 03/02/2021 18:08

We’ve got a Francis. Uncommon and old fashioned but not weird 😂

SelfMadeFantasist · 03/02/2021 17:40

Edgar
Roland
Vincent
Richard
Jared
Julius
Balthazar

YoniAndGuy · 03/02/2021 17:26

Camber

Enko · 03/02/2021 12:30

Horatio
Reginald
Conrad
Emmett
Eli
Dougal

Igglepigglesgrubbyblanket · 03/02/2021 11:56

Leslie, Larry & Gerald sister's name Margot. Old books are good for inspiration

35andThriving · 03/02/2021 11:53

I like Desmond. Smile

DarcyJack · 01/02/2021 16:57

Raymond Ralph Cuthbert Michael John Roger Graham Francis

alltheadrenalin · 01/02/2021 16:29

Henry
Wilbur
Sirus
Carey
Solomon

myrtleberry · 01/02/2021 16:24

Jerome

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 01/02/2021 16:21

I don't know him personally but I know of a little Ralphie. I can't stand the name Ralph but that is just too cute.
Oswald
Eric
Raymond
Hector
Nigel.
Jimmy.
Alan

IndiaMay · 01/02/2021 16:14

Ernest, Edwin, Jasper, Edgar, Victor, Ivor, Bruce

Ismellphantoms · 01/02/2021 16:03

Aquila
Jeptha

HoneyBeeGood · 01/02/2021 15:48

Ernest
Norman

rawalpindithelabrador · 01/02/2021 15:45

Osbert, Willibald, Reinald, Gerard, Walter

PuppyMonkey · 01/02/2021 15:42

Barry
Neville
Norris

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