Retro/Rockabilly boys names

[kfellover]

I made a post about retro girl names that has been really helpful. We had a short list of Dean, Dale, Dewey, Lyle and Floyd for boys. Our favourite is Lyle, but as we got so many different suggestions for girls we’d like to see if there are any suggestions for boys that we haven’t thought of. We like retro names, that are quite uncommon. Someone suggested ‘rockabilly’ which is exactly our type. Any ideas?.

I wondered if someone would think that, but no - it was an outsider - when I was a child my aunt made a bet on it purely because we shared a name and it won!

Wayne
Dwayn
Eric
Derek
Clifford
Kit
Jerry
Nigel
Brinton
Gary
Brandon
Wesley
Chad
Chas
Darren
Martin
Steven
Hendrix
Ricky
Joel
Jago
Sage
Frazer

Tex

Love it op! Congratulations

To me it sounds like someone is trying to pronounce Reilly but can't say their Rs! 🙈

You have been give some lovely suggestions here. I might be more inclined to go with Eugene over Gene, as Gene reminds me too much of the girl's name Jean!

Billy is still my favourite!

Edit: ops missed your last post about the decided name. Love it!! Good choice

billy
Eddie

oh Davey,
glad you have made your decision with family connections too

Love it, OP! When you first mentioned rockabilly I thought that sounded awful, but it turns out I really love many of the names mentioned. I love a bit of Johnny, Gene and Waylon!
Davey hasn’t been heard much for a while so sounds crisp and fresh to me, though I do slightly prefer the ‘Davy’ spelling: Davy Jones, Davy Crockett.

Also baffled by the poster whanging on about “identity”… everyone is named according to their parents’ tastes!

Just to update you all, we had our boy on the 2nd, he’s called Davey John. His granddads absolutely love his name and there were lots of tears when we announced it.
Thank you so much for the suggestions and we will be keeping them to look back on if we have another boy next time.

Congratulations and welcome to the world baby Davey John!

Lovely to get the update OP, wishing you all well.