I’m using some of my free time in lockdown to get my name lists sorted, and I’ve realised I don’t actually have many boys names I’m particularly enthusiastic about. I really love two - [name_m]Alexander[/name_m] and [name_m]Theodore[/name_m] - but the rest just feel kind of meh. I tend to like slightly longer, familiar, traditional names with a fair bit of history behind them. Some ones I’ve got currently, just to give you and idea, are [name_m]Gideon[/name_m], [name_m]Alfred[/name_m], [name_u]Milo[/name_u], [name_u]James[/name_u], [name_m]Frederick[/name_m] and [name_m]Christopher[/name_m], but none of them excite me particularly. Any help would be appreciated!
Chester
[name_u]Griffin[/name_u]
[name_m]Joel[/name_m]
[name_u]Thaddeus[/name_u]
[name_m]Oscar[/name_m]
[name_m]Carlo[/name_m]
[name_u]Curtis[/name_u]
[name_m]Callum[/name_m]
[name_m]Desmond[/name_m]
[name_m]Dominic[/name_m]
[name_m]Harlan[/name_m]
[name_m]Peter[/name_m]
[name_m]Franklin[/name_m]
[name_u]Kiernan[/name_u]
[name_u]Asa[/name_u]
[name_m]Gabriel[/name_m]
[name_u]Stanley[/name_u]
[name_u]Claude[/name_u]
We’ve got a few traditional names in our family so I’ll share some with you to try and bulk up your list!
[name_m]Derek[/name_m]/ [name_m]Frederick[/name_m]
[name_m]Ernest[/name_m]
[name_m]William[/name_m]
[name_m]Hamilton[/name_m]
[name_u]Douglas[/name_u]
[name_m]Burnett[/name_m]
[name_m]Richard[/name_m]
[name_u]Morgan[/name_u]
[name_m]Daniel[/name_m]
[name_m]Luke[/name_m]
[name_m]Andrew[/name_m]
[name_m]Alexander[/name_m]
[name_u]Francis[/name_u]
[name_m]Gerard[/name_m]
[name_m]Edward[/name_m]
[name_m]Edmund[/name_m]
[name_m]David[/name_m]
[name_u]Ray[/name_u]
[name_m]Matthew[/name_m]
What about …
[name_m]Alistair[/name_m]
[name_u]Artemis[/name_u]
[name_u]Christian[/name_u]
[name_m]Edmond[/name_m]
[name_m]Elijah[/name_m]
[name_m]Jeremiah[/name_m]
[name_m]Kenneth[/name_m]
[name_m]Lancelot[/name_m]
[name_m]Lewis[/name_m]
[name_u]Montgomery[/name_u]
[name_m]Nathaniel[/name_m]
[name_m]Nelson[/name_m]
[name_m]Sebastian[/name_m]
[name_m]Stewart[/name_m]
[name_m]Vincent[/name_m]
Benjamin
[name_m]Nicholas[/name_m]
[name_m]Nathaniel[/name_m]
[name_m]Sebastian[/name_m]
[name_m]Jonathan[/name_m]
I second @juliem1912’s list – all of those came immediately to mind for me, too!
Richard
[name_m]Geoffrey[/name_m]
[name_m]Oliver[/name_m]
[name_u]Gardner[/name_u]
[name_u]Laurence[/name_u]
[name_m]Reginald[/name_m]
[name_m]Arthur[/name_m]
[name_m]Peter[/name_m]
[name_m]Gilbert[/name_m]
[name_u]Julian[/name_u]
[name_m]Albert[/name_m]
[name_m]Count[/name_m] any repeats as seconds!
[name_m]Louis[/name_m]
[name_m]Roger[/name_m]
[name_m]Fergus[/name_m]
[name_m]Malcolm[/name_m]
[name_m]Thomas[/name_m]
[name_m]Colin[/name_m]
[name_m]Maximilian[/name_m]
[name_m]Magnus[/name_m]
[name_m]Walter[/name_m]
[name_m]Vincent[/name_m]
[name_m]Leonard[/name_m]/Leopold/Leonidas
[name_m]Barnaby[/name_m]
[name_m]Wilfred[/name_m]/Wilbur/William
[name_m]Linus[/name_m]
[name_m]Rufus[/name_m]/Rupert
[name_m]Phineas[/name_m]
[name_m]Frederick[/name_m]
[name_u]Willoughby[/name_u]
[name_m]Fitzgerald[/name_m]/Fitzwilliam/Fitzpatrick etc.
Atticus
[name_m]Benjamin[/name_m]
[name_u]Everett[/name_u]
[name_u]Willoughby[/name_u]
[name_m]Barnaby[/name_m]
[name_u]Maxwell[/name_u]
[name_m]Henry[/name_m]
[name_m]Samuel[/name_m]
[name_m]Orson[/name_m]
[name_m]Silas[/name_m]
[name_m]Archie[/name_m]
[name_m]Oscar[/name_m]
[name_m]Prescott[/name_m]
[name_u]Elias[/name_u]