Rarely used old-fashioned boys name

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Are there any around?

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Psst - this thread is a little old. If you’re looking for old-fashioned baby names, these ones are due a comeback. MNHQ

Norman
Barrington
Gerald
Norbert
Cyril
Percival
Roderick
Clive

Aubrey is my favourite

Laurence or Lawrence.

Paul
Darren
Peter
Steve
Michael
Andrew

I don't know any children with these names, v popular in my youth - but I expect not old fashioned enough ..,

Hoolio I have a feeling I went to university with you, especially if it was the Thaddeus (Thad) who was mega hot but sadly obsessed with Noel Edmonds?

Herbert
Walter
Harold
Norman

i know a vincent and think its a great name as any of its abbreviations sound cool. if i had another boy hed be a vincent for sure

Algernon. I like Algie

Hector
Hamish
Austin
Campbell
Montague
Vernon
Hillary
Ashley
Trevor
Worth
Randal

Atticus
Benedict
Colin
Dustin
Eric
Francis
Gerald
Harold
Ivan
Jeremy
Kevin
Leighton
Martin
Nigel
Owen
Philip
Quentin
Richard
Simon
Timothy
Ullyses
Vincent
Walter
Xavier
Yann
Zachary
I have OCD so they have to be alphabetical !

I loooove Percy!!

Aloysius
Augustine
Hubert
Harold
St. Claire
St. John
Norbert
Marmaduke

Can't say any of these do much for me 😂 all the nicer ones are too popular.

I liked Laurie for ages but my son just says it makes him think of lorries 😕

Clement/ Clem
Nathaniel/ Nate
Edmund
Wilfred/ Wilf
Wilbur
Austin
Josiah
Monty/ Montgomery
Raymond/ ray
Frank
Reggie

Warren
Darren
Dean
Dave
Steve
Ray
Alan
John
Wayne

I met a Wilbur last week. Beautiful.

Abraham or Bram
Edgar
Silas
Cyrus
Cassius
Caius
Kingsley
Gerard
Mathias
Eben or Ebenezer
Nelson
Augustus
Octavo or Octavius
Hector
Rudyard
Edmond
Llewelyn
Amos
Tracey and Stacey

Diamonds, can't remember Noel Edmonds, but Thad was rather sexy yes. 1984?

Granville.

Ambrose
Anthony/Antony
Julius
Ferdinand
Esmond
Kenneth
Stephen
Malcolm
Vernon
Walter
Abraham
Geoffrey
Richard
Arnold
Reginald
Ronald
Horace
Sidney
Ludovic

Tobias
Theodore
Theobald
Jocelyn
Rollo
Eli
Elisha
Ezra
Isaiah
Timothy
Laurence instead of Laurie
Tristan
Jabez
Gerard
Gerald
Ronald or Ranald
Matthew
Martin
Algernon
Augustus
Augustine
Adolphus
Hugo
Iago
Inigo, which S the English form of ignatius
Ignatius
Francis
Horace
Horatio
Horatius
Jacob
Abel
Digby
Rufus
Dominic

Tedbar.

Leopold

Tristan or Tristram

Eugene

Wilbur

Randolph

Yuck to the majority of those names! The reason many fell out of use was because they aren't euphonious . The good old classic names such as David, Andrew, Michael, William etc have never gone completely out of use because they sound more pleasant.
Previous generations recycled family names which was why Victorian favoured names were used so long. My DF was named Percy but hated it and changed it as as soon as he was able. He was named after an uncle. Likewise my DM changed her name.
Archie is currently regaining popularity but tbh to me it sounds like nail scratching on a chalk board!

OP if you're set on an old fashioned name why not look back in your own family tree. What were your great grandfathers called , and their siblings.
Or go onto Ancestry.co.uk and look at some of the family trees there for genuinely old names