Proper boys names to call your sons (that nobody else will use and aren't surnames or nicknames)

[LapsedPacifist]

David
Phillip
Peter
Timothy
Brian
Robert
Martin
Keith
Clive
Nigel
Geoffrey
Mark
Gordon
John
Kevin
Christopher
Alastair
Kenneth
Ronald
Andrew
Stephen
Jonathan
Anthony
Paul
Terence
Gareth
Alexander
Stuart
Darryl
Patrick
Robin
Frederick
Michael
Richard
Lawrence
Scott
Douglas
Dennis
Laurence
Roger
Craig
Frank
Raymond
Russell
Donald

[80sMum]

Thewhingingdefective I had the same experience. The two deeply out of fashion and under-used names I chose for DS and DD later became very popular.

Friends and family looked at me oddly when I announced DD's name - and some even said "why do you want to call her an old ladies' name?"!

DD's name was top of the list of popular girls' names a couple of years ago and DS's peaked at number 5! Just goes to prove how fashions change. I was about 25 years ahead of my time!

[florascotia]

Agree with 80sMum - andin Scotland, the tradition of naming child with mother's surname was fairly popular until the mid 20th century. It was part of a wider practice: first son was named after father's father; second son named after mother's family, first daughter named after a grandmother's first name, or a female version of a grandfather's name, such as 'Donaldina').. Not everyone followed tradition of course.

People in the past also named babies after celebrities/heroes: Clive, Nelson, Stanley.

From OP's list, as well as surnames already mentioned, Keith and Gordon were originally surnames, too. And Scottish!

[PurplePunkPrincess]

Due in June and my baby's name is on the OPs list :)

[YellowStripe]

Horace

Barry

[BananaBeforeBed]

My son's name is on the OP's list.

[Eastpoint]

Bernard