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Old fashioned boys names

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salharg · 15/07/2022 14:42

Please send some suggestions my way.

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Classica · 15/07/2022 14:43

Derek
Clive
Richard
Geoffrey

GreenManalishi · 15/07/2022 14:45

Brian, Gary, Wayne, Steve, Phil, Roger

SummaLuvin · 15/07/2022 14:50

Alistair
Amos
Eric
Frank
John
Joseph
Stan (Stanley)

UsernameIsHarderThanBabyName · 15/07/2022 14:51

Frank
Ray
Victor
Vincent
John
Walter

Caspianberg · 15/07/2022 14:51

Peregrine
Alaric

SallyWD · 15/07/2022 14:51

Wilfred
Alfred
Stanley
Sidney
George
William
Thomas
James
Edward
Richard
Oliver
Henry
Adam
Albert
Arthur
John

UsernameIsHarderThanBabyName · 15/07/2022 14:52

Stanley
Sidney
Joseph
George

ditalini · 15/07/2022 14:52

Nigel
Simon
Geoffrey
Graeme
Darren
Kevin
David
Iain

maryanne22 · 15/07/2022 14:59

Peter. It's not old fashioned as such but u don't hear it much in my children Altho I have a 2 year old Peter.

I also second Nigel and would use it if I had another boy

PeppaPigIsBacon · 15/07/2022 15:07

Steven
Edmund
Guy
Bartholomew
Graham
Alan
Francis

17caterpillars1mouse · 15/07/2022 15:07

Jeffrey - I love this name I think it's gorgeous and Jeff is pretty cool too. Definitely due a comeback

Stanley

Malcolm

Leroy

Edmond

Oswald

Richard

Arthur

17caterpillars1mouse · 15/07/2022 15:08

Also

Reginald

Ronald

Archibald

Bertram

Bernard

Alfred

Roy

John

BinBandit · 15/07/2022 16:02

Depends which era of old fashioned.

Barnaby (Barny)
Miles
Guy
Crispin
Cuthbert
Hubert
Herbert (herbie)
Lawrence
Vivian
Martin
Terence

forcookssake · 15/07/2022 16:05

Clarence
Reginald
Ronald

BinBandit · 15/07/2022 16:11

Clifford
Francis/Frank
Neil
Alan

MassiveSalad22 · 15/07/2022 16:14

There’s actually a Derrick and and Ian at my kids’ school, and I know a Colin and Nigel in their 30s 😄

More popular ‘old fashioned’ names (that’s an oxymoron surely):
Albert (know loads!)
Arthur
Alec
Edmund

That sort of thing?

elQuintoConyo · 15/07/2022 16:19

Aubrey
St John (sinjun)
Quincy
Percy
Evelyn
Hilary
Atticus
Septimus

puddingandsun · 15/07/2022 16:19

Errol

mathanxiety · 15/07/2022 16:19

Paul
Malcolm
Douglas
Duncan
Hugh
Alec
Denis
Humphrey
Harold
Arnold
Roland
Rupert
Melvin
Mervyn
Mark
Noel
Timothy
Ian
Derek
Trevor
Vernon
Neville
Barry
Lee
David
Alan
Colin

mathanxiety · 15/07/2022 16:24

Dougal
Hubert
Cedric
Cyril
Cecil
Basil
Cornelius
Ignatius

mathanxiety · 15/07/2022 16:25

Raymond

TheGetaway · 15/07/2022 16:30

Vincent or Ralph

AppleHa · 15/07/2022 16:31

maryanne22 · 15/07/2022 14:59

Peter. It's not old fashioned as such but u don't hear it much in my children Altho I have a 2 year old Peter.

I also second Nigel and would use it if I had another boy

I love Peter!

OP, just go through all the male characters in E Nesbit books - or Enid Blyton if you want 30s/40s instead of Edwardian.

Nesbit has:

Cyril
Robert
Gerald
James
Noel
Oswald
Horace
And of course Peter

Blyton has:
Julian
Richard
Peter again
Jack
Colin
George
Frederick
Larry
Philip
Rory
Benjy
and many more!

DuchessOfSausage · 15/07/2022 16:44

Bernard
Gerald
Nigel
Darren
Wayne
Gordon
Duncan
Colin
Martin
Jason
Todd
Scott
Dean
Nigel
Martin
Ian
Ryan
Craig
Conor
Bradley
Bailey
Neil
Kenneth
Malcolm
Sean/Shaun
Richard

FourChimneys · 15/07/2022 16:49

Edgar
Silas
Wilfred
Rex
Adrian

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