Boy names worthy of a comeback

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Inspired by a similar thread for girls' names:

Eric
Amos
Claude
Gene
Dennis
Gregory
Martin
Arnold
Solomon

There's an Austin at my child's primary school as well. I had a look at the ONS data, and it's currently sitting just outside the top 200, so happily getting more popular.

Glad to hear Eric is getting some love IRL!

My Mum drew up our family tree, going back 400 years.

Several “Jerez”.

Quite like it.

Oh FFS. Bloody autocorrect again! Not Jerez (Sherry?!)

Jebez.

Martin
Richard
Adrian
Raymond
Gregory
Craig

I came on to say Philip just like a lot of posters.

Also:

Stephen/Steven
Michael
Anthony
Richard
John

Dicken and Crispin, too.

For girls, Hepzibah, Bathsheba, Posey and Candace.

I know boys named Eric, Frank, Leonard, Rupert, Jason, Solomon, Dennis and Stanley!

Marcus and Lucas are lovely.

Nicholas, William, Richard, Peter, Joseph, Matthew, Benjamin all very solid names too.

Toby/Tobias
Jonty
I knew a “ Joby” years ago

Jonas

Arthur
Lawrence/Laurie (as in Little Women)

Sylvester

My son is called Laurence/ Laurie..he absolutely loves his name and very successful!

Ours too. Though Laurie is his name, never Laurence.

Beautiful, isn’t it 😊

My son was born this March and we named him Martin ❤️

Edmund
Gideon
Tristram
Jethro
Geoffrey
Ralph
Clarence
Jerome
Ambrose
Augustus
Clement
Elias
Basil

I can see new testament boy names cycling round again. The current trend is for old testament, but I think it will swing the other way again within the next 20 years or so.

I love Matthew and was really surprised when this fell out of the top 100. Luke too. Luca and Lucas have definitely taken over there, with a more international vibe. Maybe the current and likely future success of Luke Littler will raise Luke's profile once again?

I'd love Peter to make a comeback too.

Arthur has definitely already come back, it's been firmly in the top 10 for quite a few years now.

https://names.darkgreener.com/#arthur

Most of these names (Nicholas, Martin, John, Matthew etc) will come back once they're grandparent or great-grandparent names.

I know of a lot of Arthurs and Rays, I'd say they're popular for under 5s around here.

I love Laurence/Laurie, and Toby.

Yes me too, a fantastic name and very much worthy of a comeback

Christopher will surely have a moment again in a decade or so!

Nigel (need to be born 16th March!)

whatnationaldayisit.com/day/nigel/

Nicholas
Quentin
Philip
Leonard
Christopher

*Top 100 even (clumsy fingers)

There's a Jason and a Neil at my child's school as well.

Andrew
john
nicholas
rhys