REALLY popular name with REALLY unusual siblings?

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I'm due baby 3 this week and DH and I have struggled a bit with names.

DC 1 and 2 have very unusual names, DC1 was the only one born that year and DC2 was one of 2 born that year. They are not ooneek spellings or made up or anything just quite ancient underused names that we happened to like.

For baby 3 we have some names in the mix but probably the frontrunner is incredibly popular. Like top 10 for the past 5 years popular.

The 'sibset' would be something along the lines of, say... Lysander, Ottilie, and Jack. Not those names but that kind of unusual 1&2 and very commonplace 3.

I know popularity doesn't really matter if it's a nice name but it just feels a bit weird. Surname is very, very common surname as well (ie Brown, Jones, Smith type name)

PS also looking for inspiration so feel free to post your favourite names (we don't know the sex)

Not these exact names, but very close - we have a George and an Edmund. Similarly classic but Edmund far rarer - we get lots of compliments and lots of people turning their nose up! They were genuinely the only boys names we could agree on.

[quote CouldWeStartAgainPlease]@Pumpkinstace in Scotland they publish all names given, even to just one child. So my OP should have said just one/two in Scotland, I've never actually checked the stats for the other parts of the UK![/quote]
I didn’t know that! I’ve just had a look at 2019 when my son was born. 17 other baby boys with his name in Scotland.

Surprisingly only one Archibald-Blu😂

There are some… interesting names on the list!

If you’re set on the very popular name with your very common surname then perhaps consider an unusual or second middle name. It could prove useful in the future to avoid administrative mix-ups or if your child goes into a career where it’s helpful for your name to be distinctive for citations, eg academia or medicine.

Name suggestions:
Jovian
Jacobi
Cedric
Leviathan

Hadley
Eudora
Forrestine
Eunice
Sequoia
Elmira/Elvira
Adelia
Gale