What would you class as old fashioned for a boy now?

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I tend to like old fashioned names for DC, please give me some old fashioned boys names

Mark
Stanley
Eric
Gerald
Norman
John
Ernest
Sidney
Gary
Neville
Neill
Giles
David

Thomas
Nicholas
Robert
Henry
Matthew
Martin
David
George
Daniel
Dean
Lawrence
Lee

Boys in my school year who would be nearly 60 now and whose names are perhaps now uncommon for babies,
Gary
Carl
Wayne
Mark
Scott
Barry
Bernard

All of the 50s, 60s & 70s names. The ones from the eras before this (which I think of as grandparent names like Arthur and Stanley) are all over every soft play centre you go to.
As well as the ones listed, names like Simon, Andrew, Christopher, Jonathan, David, Stephen, Nicholas, Robert & Richard just aren't used at the moment.

Horace
Ebenezer
Wilberforce

Hubert
Egbert
Cuthbert

Gosh, nearly every boy I knew growing up in the 80a or 90s were called one of these names!

Boys names seem either ultra modern (Kayden, Jayden etc) or interwar (Arthur, Wilfred etc). All the biblical names are out of fashion now (Matthew, Luke, Philip, David).

I’ve got a 5 year old Leonard!

also liked Vincent, Frank, Michael

Nicholas

I would say all the names that were last common in the 70s and 80s are outdated, so names like Craig, Darren, Chris, Wayne, Paul etc

Old fashioned names I would guess are ones that have 'died out' and are very uncommon in any age now, like
Algernon
Clarence
Clement
Ernest
Linus
Lionel
Byron
Edwin
Walter
Herbert
Montgomery
Gilbert
Giles
Randolph
Cornelius
Albion
Cuthbert
Aloysius
Theobald
Ignatius
Abraham
Enoch
Amos
Obadiah
Silvester
Oswald
Cecil
Basil

I have a Nicholas and don’t know any others his age. Lots of the Dads of children in his year are called Nicholas/ Nick though

Sidney

Reginald
Denis
Walter
Norman
Clarence
Percy
Horace
Sidney

Simon
robert
richard
stephen
timothy
carl
anthony
stuart
john
jonathan
hugh
colin
peter
paul
philip
mark
andrew
julian
adrian
patrick
brian
graham
martin
gareth

I think there’s a distinction between ‘old fashioned’ - the Stanleys and Alberts, and ‘unfashionable’ - the Stevens and Andrews.

Like @BlueSuffragette said, it is now the names that a lot of 60-65 yr olds have
Paul
Gary
Dean
Christopher
Simon
Richard
Alan
Keith

and so forth. The real 'old man' names are back in fashion...the Reggies, the Alfs and so on.

I’ve noticed the name Carl being mentioned- I know two Carl’s and both are early 30’s so I don’t think it’s too long out of fashion. I noticed someone said the name Luke is out of fashion- it’s number 78 in the baby name charts and both my DNephew (21) and DH’s DNephew (18) are Luke. But things change so quickly!
I wouldn’t so much say that name’s like that are old fashioned- just more out of fashion. The whole Keith thing made me giggle- I know a guy who has the middle name Keith and he’s just put me off that name for life.
Interestingly I’ve just asked DH (51) who is called Paul whether he considers his name old fashioned and he says yes he does. So I guess what’s old fashioned to one person isn’t to all.

Shane
melvyn
Walter
frank
jasper

Brian
Trevor
Derrick
Mark
Steven
Andrew
Michael

For me it would be names like:

Derek
Gavin
Gareth
Gary (I think one of these is officially endangered)
Richard
Ian
Stephen (Steve)

Names which are rarer but not necessarily old-fashioned in a bad sense to my ears include:

David
Matthew
Michael
Paul
Peter
Simon

Basically, half my class born in the late 1970s/early 1980s 😂

Never hear of any little Christopher, David or Matthews round here (knew loads growing up).

I forgot another from my era

Kevin

Colin? alan… but in 15 years they’ll be v hip

The full version of the current trend for cutsie shortened boys names eg
Reginald Reggie
Albert Albie
Edward Teddy
Frederick Freddie

And names like
Algernon
Crispin
Edmund

Gary
Alan
Colin
Craig