Names similar to Alistair

[MissHenty]

I love the name Alistair but can’t use it as it’s my nephew.

What I love about the name is that it’s a classic normal name but it has actually never been popular. I also love the nickname Ali.

From what I can see the name has never actually been in the Uk top 100 names (why not!! I can’t understand it) and the name is now close to number 500 in the name charts. Is there another equivalent name? All I can think of is Laurence. But I don’t like that as much. Anything else?

Names like Christopher aren’t the same as they were very popular in the 1980s

@TeacupDrama yes you’ve summarised perfectly

John is a good suggestion but John has been extremely popular a few decades ago. I’m thinking of a classic name that’s never really been that popular (like Alistair and Laurence)

Robert, Gregory or Jonathan?

I actually know six Alistair's (admittedly not all spelled like that) all in their 30s, so it must have been popular once!

Anyway, similar names, I think Cameron is a good shout as is Fraser and Duncan but if you're not bothered about Scottishness then the classics like Michael, Matthew, Daniel, Benjamin, Peter etc might be worth considering. All were popular at one point but I have not met a baby with those names in the last five years.

Angus, Ewan, phineas, stefan,
Its quite hard finding names that havent had a surge of popularity

Dominic
Quentin
Elliott
Darius

Gregory
Andrew
Mark
Patrick
Jonathan (actually, this was pretty popular about 45 years ago)
Michael

Owen?

Keith
Robin
Alan
Nigel
Bernard
Gordon
Graham/Graeme
Geoffrey

Raymond
Eugene
Myles
Walter

Dudley
Hugo
Piers
Felix
Jonty

Fergus
James
Raymond
Edward
Fintan
Patrick

Love a solid name

Robert
Leonard
Vincent
Stewart
Douglas
Seth
Dale

Colin, Malcolm (knew a lovely mild chap at school called that), Edmund, Gavin, Miles, Neil?

Ambrose
Dominic
Patrick
Gabriel
Julian
Marcus

Richard
Euan/Ewan
Owen
Victor
Angus
Rufus
Martin

I have just named my baby boy Vincent...

I love Alastair but DH hates it - here’s our boys list:

Douglas
Hugh
Dominic
Marcus
Nicholas
Felix
Elliot
Ivor
Dexter
Ralph
Rupert
Seth
Barnaby
Jasper
Tristan
Benedict
Alec
Myles

All non top 50 but classic and slightly unusual?

Lots of classic but relatively unusual ideas to think about.

Alistair is a nice name, my son went to school with a couple, they each had a Scottish parent. Cameron is very good too if you like names that are popular in Scotland but less so here. There's also Alexander which is timeless.

The first name I thought of was Lawrence too!
Russell
Ross
Nicholas
Maybe if you find famous Alistairs and Lawrence's you can see what other names were popular during that era?
The only Alistair I can think of is Alistair Crowley and I think he was some sort of Satanist🤣

Actually the satanist is spelt differently... What about Samuel?

Thank you for all these suggestions, I’m still going though them but you’ve all done brilliantly to understand the ‘brief’.

@Dollywilde lovely list of names. I’ve always liked the sound of Felix because of the X at the end. When is baby due? Is it definitely a boy?

DH put me off “Ivor” as he said it’s a joke name “Ivor Biggen” ☹️

I love the name elliot
Julien
Nathan
Andrew
Adrian
Aiden

“Normal” names that I don’t think I have ever met a child under 12 with (I don’t know many over 12s!).

Anthony
Peter
Matthew
Timothy
Robert
Andrew
David
John
Simon
Nicolas
Patrick
Dominic