Classic but not super common boys name

[wishing3]

I like the sound and vibe of the name Alexander, but would prefer something less common. It doesn’t need to be really rare- I’d prefer it if everyone has heard of it. Something where there’s less likely to be lots in the class. Without meaning to offend others, not keen on names I think of as more trend-led/of the moment like Arlo/Albie/ Roman. Not keen on what I’d think of as cheeky chappy names like Ronnie/Alfie. Not keen on more 80s names I see suggested on theses forums like Simon/Peter/Thomas. Names like Vincent/Felix/Quentin bit too left -field for me. Like Laurence but can’t use.
If you didn’t die of boredom reading that, please help !

Reginald (Reg or Regie)

Monty (Montgomery/Montague)
Bertie (Albert/Bertram)

These would have been my choices but I had 2 girls!

Look at names of your uncles and great-uncles:
I was going to suggest: Mark, Paul, John, Andrew, Simon, Richard, Robert, Roger, Jeremy, Nicholas, Alan, Gavin, Douglas, Peter, Graham, Calum, Timothy, Christopher (not Kit), David, Stephen, Michael

What about Aled?

Similar feel to Alex but you don’t hear of many!

Apologies for any repeats.
Benedict
Dominic
Fraser
Caspar
Richard
Sebastian
Christian
Christopher
Stephen
Leon

Hector
Richard
Philip
Wulfric
Alaric
Ricard
Gerard

Thanks for all the suggestions- we made a shortlist from them, but think the top 3 might now be Alexander nn Ally/Alec, Alistair or Joseph.
Had a moment of love for Aubrey but then decided it sounded like my toddler saying strawberry!

Alexander is number 27/100 in the UK, two if my friends have Alex's under the age if 2. Just thought I'd mention it as you said you didn't want a popular name xx

I'd go with Xander as the nn for Alexander because Alex is so popular. I know six Alex and one Alexis through school but no Xander's.

If you don't want popular, definitely avoid Alexander. We know soo many boy and girls called Alex/Alexander/Alexandra!

I like Aubrey

Id started telling myself that number 27 wasn’t that high. Maybe it’s weighted more towards the top ten. I don’t know many Alexander’s but I guess that’s not representative. Hmmm, Joseph is less common .

Not keen on Xander.

@wishing3 , Alexander has been in the top 20 names for most of the past 30 years. Add to that the Alexandras and Alexas, and the Aleksanders, the just Alexs, and the Xanders, it is not an uncommon name.

I don't like Xander either, but I like Alex, Alec, Ally, Sandy and Sasha.

Personally I would always go with the full version of the name which makes it easy for the child to choose which nickname they want to use growing up. Both of my kids have names that lend themselves to multiple shortenings but to date they've both stuck with the full version.

James
Alistair
Cameron
Christian/Kristian
Sebastian
Edmund
Joshua
Samuel
Benjamin

I'd started telling myself that number 27 wasn’t that high.

Add to that the number of Alexes, Alexeis, Alexas, Alexandras etc as well as the huge number of years that they were popular, there will be LOTS of male and female Alexes out there!

Theo - Theodore

@Callieviolet , if you add all the Theos and Theodores together it's the most used name.

I’ve only met one Theo so I assumed it to be uncommon 😳

Martin

Francis
Lewis
Wyndham
Christian
Kalman
Patrick
Uriah
Duane
Trent
Cameron
Dale
Richard
Curtis

I only know one and he says it as 'Tayo', so I assume that's how it's said. A colleague has a son called Theo (Theodore) but he says it wrongly, but he's american

Hmm, maybe Joseph then…

Joseph is less common than you'd think. I've met way more Dylans, Charlies and Theos. But that's only a small sample size!