Underused English boys names..

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Expecting DS1 in the next few weeks. Would like to use an underused but classic name. DH no help - he removes names from the shortlist faster than I can add them!

I want some nice middle ground between the popular classics (William/Thomas/George) and the mumsnet 'classics' (Jolyon/Tarquin/Crispin).

My current shortlist includes:
Arthur
Corin
Edmund
Aubrey
Rupert

DH has vetoed (but I still love):
Laurence
Otis
Fintan
Ludo

What else might I like?

Claude
Gilbert
Roger
Jeffrey
Marcus

Rowan
Ash

Guy
Hugh
Edmund
Jonathan (nn Jon Jonty)

Anselm
Reginald
Graham
Hilary

Sorry, OP, didn't see the rider about names you might actually like...let me refine it to Anselm and Hilary.

Rex
Jude
Seth
Flynn
Finn
Jasper

I've been researching my family tree and have found the following names!

Enoch
Solomon
Ely
Cornelius
Job
Jonathan
Jeremy or Jeremiah
Samson
Newman
Ambrose ( I love this!)
Philip

( as well as hundreds of James, David, John, George,William, Thomas and Henry.... )

Other underused names I can think of Roger, Winston, Horatio, Horace, Gabriel, Crawford, Martin, Christian and Stanley.

Good luck choosing a name OP

Conrad

Ivo

Thanks again for all the great suggestions. Have lots to take away and ponder. Will report back in a few weeks once we've met him!

Alistair

Justin
Piers

Alan
Brian
Charles
David
Edward
Francis
Gavin
Hugh
Ian
James
Kingsley
Lloyd
Michael
Neil
Owen
Peter
Quinn
Richard/Robert
Stephen/Simon
Timothy
Ulysses
Valentine/Vaughan
Wolf
Xavier
Yusuf
Zebedee/Zac

If you have a Cornish connection and like Jago how about:

Jowan - Cornish for John
Jory - Cornish for George
Ruan
Piran
Treve/Treave

Jude

Loved this name if I was gonna have a boy

I came on to suggest Aubrey and Maurice, and am so pleased to see that the former is already on your list. I think it is such a good name, and have an almost synaesthetic response to it: it sounds delicious to me, like a piece of warm freshly baked bread spread liberally with butter and jam.

Oh, and Ambrose! How could I forget? Was top of my boys list. Defo the name that got away, for me...

Really surprised that Hugo hasn't been mentioned- it's top of our boys list (two dd's and ttc dc3) with zach/Zachary/Zacharias as a second so far

I also love xander (secretly hoping for twin boys dc3 & 4, Hugo and xander)

We've got a Jago and I love it but do worry it is quite unusual - don't want him to be picked on.

Please not Osbert (sorry)
I also really dislike Jago.

But I have an prejudice against nimby middle class names such as might be found in a Boden catalogue (I am MC)

I suggest:

Patrick
Victor
Leon
Philip
Dominic
Raphael

Nicholas
Richard
Michael
Horace
Albert
Paul
Francis
Clarence
Ralph
Earnest
Stephen
Gilbert
Sylvester
Leonard
Anthony

Caspar.

Lovely old English name and very much underused.

Dizzy

Aaargh! Sorr,y I did not read your post above. Had I done so, I wouldn't have been quite so forthright about the name.