Cannot choose a boy’s name! Help!

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It’s starting to drive me crazy. I like so many girl’s names but it’s a boy, so I’m stuck. I like relatively unusual but not completely out-there/stupid names. I’d like them to be the only one in their class, but I still want a lovely name. Please help.

Alistair

Rory

Ralph
Orlando
Patrick
Hamish
Roscoe

Good luck!!

Dominic, Nathaniel, Lachlan, Rupert, Matthias, Nicholas, Flynn, Stanley, Chester, Rubeun, Jules, Jett, Neil, Quentin

Reuben not how I spelt it!!

Amos
Ambrose
Roscoe
Tobias
Owen
Leon
Dominic
Ellis
Francis
Noel
Evan

If you want them to be the only one in their class (and i obviously appreciate there's not guarantees) I'd take a list of the top 100 names and make sure you cross off every single one!
I see Rory suggested for example. A nice enough name but there's loads of them (and loads of top 100 boy names starting Ro_) so I would cross that off.

Tristan
Cole
Curtis
Barnaby
Casper
Seth
Sidney
Laurence Laurie
Otis
Otto
Christopher Kit
Peter

Abraham. Alfred. Martin. Damien. Denis. Fergus. Ralph. Edmund. Adrian. Nelson. Clancy. Cyril. Bertram. Francis. St John (sinjun)
I always hope someone chooses one of my names and lets me know. Even if I don’t like it myself (I definitely don’t love all my suggestions) it would still be a huge win

Richard

Otis
Gideon
Jude
Solomon
Jasper
Rupert
Amos

I’d like them to be the only one in his class.
That’s unrealistic, though. No matter what name you choose there’s no guarantee of that.
You’re probably but not definitely less likely to find the following names in the class room now.
John
Paul
Alan
Gary
Carl
Terence
Lawrence
Trevor
Norman
Brian
Cedric
Maurice
Horace
Donald
Wilbur

Keith
Colin
Mark

I agree there’s no guarantee of having the only one in the class. What style of names do you like? It might be easier if you post a few you like then people can add suggestions.

Kit
Abel
Evander
Mason
Caspian
Brooks
Atlas
Solomon
Hendrix
Wilbur
Arthur
Max
Vincent

Ashton
Sebastian
Patrick
Lochlan
Jackson
Tyler
Harvey
Louis
Cole
Logan
Caleb
Reece
Daniel
Leo /Leon
Hugo

Yes to the only one in their class... one of mine has a name used 80 times the year they were born... there was another in their nursery class 😂

Dominic
Donovan
Costello
Andre
Piers
Xander
Milo
Tobias

Malachi
Tobias
Barnaby
Ned
Gabriel
Thaddeus
Theodore
Reuben
Raffael
... look up the 1000 top boys names used in 2019 and skip the first 100. There are some great names there.

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/bulletins/babynamesenglandandwales/2019

www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=%2fpeoplepopulationandcommunity%2fbirthsdeathsandmarriages%2flivebirths%2fdatasets%2fbabynamesenglandandwalesbabynamesstatisticsboys%2f2019/2019boysnames.xlsx

Lawrence nn laurie (mainly because I love little women and hugh Laurie)

Our boy name we had picked out when we were having children was Elliott.

Ronan
Ross
Andrew
Aidan
Jeremy
Timothy

We have the same “requirements” and are likely to go with Lachlan or Owen. So hopefully you’re not in the same school catchment areas as us

I can’t believe people are suggesting Arthur
Max Gabriel and Reuben as unusual, they’re everywhere

@Awwlookatmybabyspider I know 🤣 I think people aren't as obsessed with the name numbers as geeks like me

Agree you can never guarantee there wont be two in a class but you can seriously reduce your chances. I find it a bit strange when people almost dismiss popularity and say you can't predict it because you completely can predict it if you look at the statistics. There may well be a few schools in the country where there's 2 Laurences in a class for example. But there will be far more schools in the country where there will be two Arthur's for example. And yes you can predict that by looking at the statistics
Plus when people say they'd like their child to be the only one in the class, I interpret that really as just meaning they don't want a mega popular name. If you pick a really rare name like Clive and end up with another Clive in the class, that would probably be a nice surprise as that's likely to be the only other Clive you come across your whole life looking at the statistics.