If I like these boy names...

[Diorissimo1985]

... can you recommend any others in a similar vein? Expecting DC2 in spring and just found out it’s a boy (already have one girl - lucky as we used the only girl name we could agree on for her!)

Guy
Francis
Benedict
Julian
Thomas
Laurence (Laurie)
Alastair (my least favourite but DH’s first choice)

Thank you!

Gabriel, Raphael, Dominic, Sebastian

Love Alastair and Laurence

Tristan
Spencer
Kasper
Nathaniel

That's a very nice list. It seems you like underused classics so I'd add:

Andrew
Nicholas
Dominic
Marcus
Gregory
Stephen

Hugo
Rufus
Gabriel
Lucien
Nathaniel
Caspian
Casimer
Jasper

Adam

Peter
Alexander
Jeremy

Vincent
Cameron

Maxwell
Nicholas
Peter
Sebastian
Emmet
Kenneth
David
Crispin
Dominic
Joshua
Benjamin
Christian

I like Thomas and Alastair from that list.

I actually don't see your list as a 'whole'. So, similar to Thomas, I'd say
Daniel, Edward, Harry, James

Perhaps more similar to Guy and Francis - what about Simon, Christopher, Dominic.

Benedict and Julian I'd say were more like Toby and Sebastian

Laurence is a great choice

I have an Alastair who is 15 months. Laurence was also on our list.
Classic but not 'popular' names IMO.
I also have a Samuel.

Quentin
Amos
Benedict
Bede
Simon
Elliot
Rupert
Andrew
Ambrose
Sylvan
Dante
Felix
Graham
Harvey
Cillian
Jeremy
Jonah
Leon
Cornelius
Vincent
Valentine
Nathaniel
Matthieu

Simeon
Raphael
Reuben
Anthony
Hadleigh
Ralph
Benjamin
Benoit
Matthew
Mathias
Graham
Tobias
Edwin

Thank you - I quite like Dominic as a few have suggested.
I think ‘classic but underused’ sums it up. My favourite is Laurence but DH not sure.

Not Alastair - he'll just be Al, which is really boring!

Laurence is good. Love Laurie.

How about Jonathan, nn Jonty?

I don't think Adrian has been mentioned yet, another underused classic.

Fabian
Christian
Really like your list except Guy and Francis

Francis - love it, was on our list
Benedict - ditto
Julian - like it
Thomas - lovely classic
Laurence (Laurie) - nice
Alastair (my least favourite but DH’s first choice) - love it

Alot of your names were ones we considered (we had girls). We also liked

Alasdair
Alaric
Cedric
Patrick
Rufus
Ezra
Tristam
Struan
Tobias
Percival
Taliesin
Wyatt
Everett
Jonah
Elias
Nathaniel
Jeffrey
Zachary
Leonard

Any you like?

I don’t really like Adrian - makes me think of Adrian Mole!
I also knew an awful Adam which clouds my judgment.

@17caterpillars1mouse thanks - I like Patrick from your list - hadn’t thought of that at all!

Of your shortlist I like, Thomas (Tom) timeless and classic and Francis (Frank) not keen on Alistair but you have Ali. Can you compromise with Alexander?

[quote Diorissimo1985]@17caterpillars1mouse thanks - I like Patrick from your list - hadn’t thought of that at all![/quote]
Patrick is so nice . Paddy is cute

Patrick is gorgeous, but I don't like any of the diminutives at all. I used it as a middle name.

OP, haha to Adrian Mole, I didn't think of him. He might've made a classic name unusable.

@lemonsquashie we’ve talked about Alexander and we don’t love it - also we know quite a few of varying ages so it seems quite common to us.

Also if we use Alastair we’d maybe use Alasdair spelling (DH Scottish and our DD has a Scottish name). It’s not my favourite though!