Boy names - 1970s or too old man?!

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Help, DH and I are expecting and cannot agree on a boy name AT ALL.

He likes names like:
Simon
Robert
Gregory
Steven
Peter
I think these are very 1970s names but he thinks they are classic?

On the other hand I like names like
Alfred (Fred)
Oliver
Albert
Rupert
Henry/Harry
Frank(ie?)/Franklin
Percy
Theodore
Wilfred (Fred...again!)
He says these are old man names...even when I told him some of them are in the top 10 now!!

Do what do people think would any of these work?

I prefer his names.

I like Robert, Gregory, William

Theodore and Henry are my favourites

How about James? Never out of fashion.

The first list are classic, timeless names. They were around long before the 1970s and long after. I'd add David, Nicholas and Jeremy.

Some of the names on your list are good too though.

Give them something that won't embarrass them as they get older. Boys tend to like 'ordinary' names.

Gregory is the only one of your DH's that I vaguely like. What about Robin instead of Robert?

Of yours I like Theo and Wilf best.

If you like Teddy then Edward/Edwin also work?

Thanks for the extra suggestions. We can't use James and Edward. We are trying to cut down the new list to just 2 or 3 names now.

Then we start on middle names!

Fred is lovely and I've never met a Will that isn't cool/nice.

Those won't date and people won't call him Freddie if you don't. I regret not having a Fred (and I have two with names on your list!)

I prefer from your list
Robert
Steven
Andrew

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Robert/Rupert - i prefer Rupert as a full name but Robert lends itself to Bobby, Robbie etc
Gregory- love this
William/Wilfred/just Wilf/just Will???- Id go with Wilfred
Fred (but dislike Freddie)- would need to be Frederick for me, lots of these around at the moment though
Peter- i like this a lot
Andrew/Andy- nice middle name I think
Percy (too "drippy"/"just no" as some posters have said??)- just no
Theodore or just Teddy millions of these around at the moment

This may have been asked but how about Thomas?

I love Robert. There's a Robert where I work, we mostly called him rob but somehow this changed to Roberto 😄

I have a 14yr old Gregory and a 2 yr old Percy 😀was really think that Gregory was a particularly 70s name. If you ever go to the Isle of Man there are loads of children called Greg! I children with some more of your 70s names too...I love Rupert!

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Robert. Then he can be Bobby/Bertie/Rob/Robin.

Why don't you look at Dark greener names website. It uses ONS name stats and you can see how many of Name have been born since 1996-2017 it's good for working out which are classics and which are trendy.

Frankie

I prefer your husband's name list TBH. Yours are very trendy right now, and yes they do seem 'old man'. I did like Oliver and Harry though, but I see you have removed them from your list.

Of course names like Simon, Peter and Stephen (not Steven please!) are classic, they are saints' names from the Bible. Just because they were more popular in the 70s than now does not suddenly make them not classic.

Names like Percy, Rupert and Wilfred are definitely not classic. They are faddy. And Percy and Rupert are both animals' names (pig and bear respectively) or otherwise upper class twit names.

Of your new list:

Robert and William are the most classic and timeless I think. Peter is classic too (as are most NT biblical names) and Fred if his full name is Frederick, but if you really don't like Freddie don't use it as it's pretty likely that others will.

Percy is as drippy as they come (see also Rupert) and Teddy (also Theo/Theodore) will date massively - they are everywhere at the moment.

I think Gregory is a good strong name, and I also like Peter (particularly nn Pete!). They're both pretty old but aren't used much nowadays, so will actually seem more 'classic' in a few years than a lot of your son's classmates who will be Henry/Theo/Oliver etc. I would also add David to your shortlist for those reasons 🤗 Percy is awful (sorry!).

The 70s ones will be on their way back soon, lots of people name kids after their grandparents generation - your DH is ahead of the curve!

Thank you all!

Dark Greener website was useful to see which names are on the rise (Percy, Peter, Rupert, Wilfred, Theodore), downward (Andrew, Gregory) and staying about the same (Robert, William).

DH and I had another chat and decided that we want a "full name" for him so we have dropped Will/Wilf, Andy, Fred (DH doesn't like Frederick or Alfred) and Teddy.

Now the problem with some names left is that I don't like some of the possible the nicknames (Pete, Theo, Rob, Bill and I don't know how I feel about Greg..or is it Gregg????). Some of them like Pete are the ONLY nickname so DH thinks we should cross them off of the list too????? He says boys use nicknames much more than girls, is he right? I do call most of my female friends by their full names.

DH is also now keen on Thomas I still think this is far too popular at the moment but I do like Thom/Tom.

Piers is a form of Peter - you could use that as a nickname. Or Petrus, etc. Because Peter is a name that has gone into lots of languages, there's a lot of Peter names you could use.

There is one Thomas in DD school (small school), lots of Alfred/Albert/Oscar/Joseph/Jonahs.