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

Michael, Simon, Matthew. I’m sure they are still pretty widely used but are often given short shrift as dull on here.

Lance
Maxwell
Graham
Arnold
Archibald
Miles
Clifford
Raymond
Howard
Jolyon
Josslin
Evelyn
Aubrey
Malcolm
Victor
Edgar

Very old fashioned - and ready to become fashionable again:

Edmund
Walter
Quentin
Vincent
Sydney
Etc

Old fashioned but too early for a revival (as still too many around)

Michael
Stephen
Andrew
David
Simon
Peter
Etc

August
Calvin
Chester
Clyde
Curtis
Emmett
Emil
Eugene
Florian
Luther
Malachi
Otis
Roland
Rufus
Sylvester
Travis
Vernon
Virgil
Warren

Christopher
Ian
Michael
Peter
Barry
Stephen
Robert
Neil
Kevin
Geoffrey
John
Douglas
Percival

There was an Alan in my DCs nursery - he must be about 7 now but I did have to do a double take when I first heard it! Same with Graham / Nigel /Gary / Brian - no doubt these will come back in style one day!

Richard
Edmund
Harold
Edgar
Percy
Howard
Horace
Humphrey
Bernard
Maurice
Sidney
Kenneth
Charles
Bruce
Norman
Leonard
Peter
Terrance
Winston
Walter
Stanley
Donald
Marmaduke
Neville

I met three year old twins called Richard and Susan recently. To me their names were much more surprising than some of the 'out-there' names I've heard.

Wish OP had given some examples of the names she likes.

Old names are quite fashionable at the moment.
The names out of fashion would be David, Gary, Alan, etc.

Anyway, don't think Raymond (Ray) was mentioned yet and I think it's lovely.

Wayne
Shane
Alan
Keith
Barry
Gary
Darren
Dean
Clive
Alfred
Simon
Brian
Paul

A lot of these are coming back in - I know a toddler Leonard “Lenny”

Hilary

Jayden Kayden etc feel really dated!

Roy
John
Nigel
Roland
Norman
Graham

I'm surprised by the Andrew comments! I'd if said it was a ageless name and know several of all ages. There's 2 in my sons p1 class, including him, and I know of younger

Old fashioned as in - so old they’re ready to be used again?

Pretty much all of these names are currently in use. Unless you’re going very old and then it’s names like:

Alaric
Wulfric
Aethelstan

or

Old fashioned as in - they sound hideous and unimaginable for a newborn currently?

These names are legion:
Wayne
Gary
Darren
Dean
Ian
Martin
Kevin
Michael
Steven/Stephen
Niall/Neil

Stephen
Paul
Anthony
Russell
John
Dean
Brian
David
Andrew
Michael
Kevin
Eugene
Stewart
Raymond
Ian
Gary
Shaun
Robert
Brendan

Walter
Malcolm
David
Richard
Timothy
Gareth
Mark
Paul
Stephen
Douglas
Scott
Lee
Raymond

I know a 20 something Frank. I think it’s kind of awesome.

That’s a good list of ‘70s names - I think I had every one of them in my class 😂

Some of these have never gone out of fashion in mainland Europe.

Ds nursery has many children called Paul, Kevin, Simon, Joseph, Alaric, Fabian, Florian. Paula, Susanna, Irena, Julia.

Terence
Ronald
Leslie
Harold
Cyril
Bernard
Herbert
Clifford
Cecil
Ernest
Lawrence
Lionel
Howard

Ernest
Percival
Hugh
Arnold
Bill
Peter
Keith
Roland
Kevin

Some cracking names here I must say

ian
david
timothy
gerard
Jason
Michael