Boys names with a historical/classical leaning

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Starting to think about potential baby names now I’m in my second trimester (had a difficult time getting here so it doesn’t quite seem real yet! Trying to be cautiously optimistic).

DH and I both share a love of history (pretty much any period but particularly Ancient Rome and medieval Europe) and I’ve always thought it would be a bit of a source of inspiration for names.

Girls names aren’t an issue - lots of ideas (Livia, Julia, Theodora, Octavia, Joan, Matilda, Eleanor, Rosalind, Emmeline etc etc) but for boys names the names are either rather generic (Henry, William, John etc) or a bit too out there (especially as DH went to a public school and is very keen to avoid any of the stereotypically posh classical names - certainly no Ptolemy (we’re both in agreement there!)).

I like Felix, Rufus, Marcus, Alban - any other suggestions for names in a similar style?

I have always loved Cato

Ceawlin (have never known how to pron
Bede

Posted too soon. How do you pronounce Ceawlin?

Edred

Thanks so much to everyone still going! There are some really lovely names suggested and I’m much more optimistic we’ll find something (Sod’s Law after everyone’s hard work coming up with ideas it’ll be a girl after all…).

Caratacus, I knew a kid with this name 40 years ago, his sister was Boudicca. Both Chieftain leaders against the Romans in different eras.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caratacus

Marcus
Quentin

I like the "Ed"names, Edwin, Edgar, Edmund.
Saxon but not too unfamiliar

My parents had friends called Tudor and Lancelot (they'd be in their 70s and 80s now).

I know a young man called Kester which I think is a old version of Christopher.

And my primary school teacher had a baby on 14 February and called him Valentine 

Tudor and Lancelot , Kester are good

Anselm
Amos
Kenelm
Benedict
Harald

Urban
Ambrose
Alaric
Gregory
Julius
Cosimo
Ludovic
Cyprian
Crispin
Edmund
Rollo
Clement
Boniface
Bede
Cornelius
Hadrian
Ferdinand
Arnulf
Erasmus
Fabian
Stanislaus
Erasmus
Aldous
Giles
Lorenzo
Constantine
Godfrey
Gilbert
Eustace
Pippin
Caspian
Roland

Erasmus

Have you considered Bede if you have a fondness for Northumberland?

Still so many great suggestions! Thank you so much.

I had thought about Bede but I just don’t like it as a sound I’m afraid. I had thought Oswald for a Northumberland link but again, not sure I like it as an actual name (and there’s the Mosley association).

I like Kester - haven’t come across it before.

Caratacus Potts, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

Have you watched The Last Kingdom? That would be a great source for names based on ones you like!
Edwin
Wulfric
Wilfred
Uhtred
Egbert/Bertie
Godwin
Malcolm
Magnus
Maddox
Cosimo
Hector
Lysander
Jason

Hector