What is your favourite old man name?

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I know they are currently popular which does not bother me just looking for an old name for our DS

Seth
Byron
Ivo
Leonard

Bartholomew
Clarence
Noel
Benjamin
Kester
Gabriel
Samson
Howard
Laurence
Thadeus
Basil

If it's not too ghoulish for you, I can recommend a walk around an old churchyard for inspiration. Some cracking names on the gravestones in oldparish churches.

Frank
Francis
Harold

Raymond or Ray

Frederick/Freddie

That's the only one I like really. I love classics like James, Oliver and William.....

Albert/Albie is quite nice too

Oh and Arthur....also nice

Jimmy

@AudTheDeepMinded good idea - I'm always doing this - not looking for baby names though - just fascinated about how usage has changed - so many wonderful surnames that have disappeared too.

Eli

Wilbur.
Cedric.
Horace.
Winston
Maurice
Dougie.

Arthur and Tom

Stanley
Quentin
Wilfred
Vincent

Arthur
Albert
Oliver
Roy

Douglas

Alfred. Someone incredibly dear to me, an original 1890s one, always Alfie. He'd have smiled to know his deeply unfashionable old man name became ubiquitous.

For other reasons, Frederick, Edgar and Edmund.

Douglas? I don’t see that as ‘old man’. But where I live it’s still a properly ok name. Not maybe common, but not almost extinct. It depends where you live really, doesn’t it.

Percy and Ernie

Bertie
Wilfred
Alfred
Jasper
Arthur
Percy

😍🥰

Percy reminds me of the vile character in The Green Mile

Stanley
Ernest
Bertie
Albert
Patrick

Cecil.

Norman ❤️

Cyril
Mervin
Melvin
Archibald
Victor
Julian
Augustus