Classic but rare baby boy names

[TheFutureIs]

I’m a teacher, so when naming a baby I want something unusual but not weird.
I loved Alastair but unfortunately my partner has a cousin named this
Girl names are so much easier!
Any suggestions of similar names?

Nicholas. Lovely name, but I've never met a child one.

Patrick
jonathan
Nicholas
alexander
micheal
nathan
Samuel

Ivor
Philip
Peregrine
Clive
Martin
Neil
Ivan
Orson
Craig
Quentin

John
Phillip
Douglas
Richard

Lots of names I think of as classic, and which were very common when I was a child in the 1960s, are rare these days:

Richard
Andrew
Peter
Paul
David
Simon
Stephen
John

Miles
Nile
Guy
Otis
Cameron
Ross

Richard
Robert
Peter
Mark
John

Clarence
Eustace
Edgar
Montgomery
Humphrey
Horace
Batholomew
St John
Boris
Seraphim
Isiah
Valentine
Algernon
Cyril
Fergus
Conrad

My current list

Xander
Newton
Emerson
Lando
Monty
Roscoe
Hamish
Murdoch
Indigo
Laurie

Charles
Stephen
Euan
Bryn
Paul
David
Adonis
Micheal
Richard

My DS is Edmund. I’ve never met any others.

@TheFutureIs Xander is very popular, if you’re looking for something a little less mainstream

My friend has just had a baby called John. Can't go wrong.

Orlando?

Valentine
Isiah
Orlando
Nile
have all been added to my list

Peter or Samuel

Asa

Lawrence
Sebastian
Axel

These were used under 50 times in 2023-

Anders
Bram
Callan
Conall
Dorian
Euan
Evander
Finnian
Gabe
Gregory
Griff
Guy
Howard / Howie
Jared
Jeremy
Julius
Justin
Lloyd
Lyle
Murray
Neil
Silas
Soren
Stuart

Love Peregrine so much

Amos

Ramsay?

Gaius
Marcus
Julius
Quintus

Classic Roman names

August

Having a cousin named Alastair wouldn’t stop me from using it too.

Rory
Cameron
Travis