A pal of mine is pregnant and it’s reminding me how thrilling it was to call our personal youngsters. We love conventional names (aka: old school names, aka traditional names) and each of our kids are named after our grandparents – one on John’s aspect and one on my aspect. So I had enjoyable placing collectively this checklist of my favourite 100 traditional boy names. They really feel established, like they stand the check of time, and might carry particular that means in the event that they’re already names in your loved ones. ALSO IS THERE ANYTHING CUTER THAN BABY SUSPENDERS?!?
One fascinating factor I discovered after I was penning this publish was that most of the high ten hottest names for boys in 2024 are arguably fairly traditional:
- #1: Liam
- #2: Noah
- #3: Oliver
- #4: James
- #5: Elijah
- #6: Mateo
- #7: Theodore
- #8: Henry
- #9: Lucas
- #10: William
However past that quick checklist of the most well-liked boy names this 12 months, there are such a lot of different traditional boy names to select from. So right here is my large checklist of round 100 conventional/old school boy names:
- Adrian
- Alec
- Archie
- Arlo
- Arthur
- August (Gus)
- Baxter
- Benjamin (Ben or Benji)
- Bennett
- Beau
- Carl
- Cedric
- Charles
- Christopher (Chris)
- Clark
- Conrad
- Dean
- Dexter
- Edward (Eddie)
- Felix
- Finn
- Flynn
- Ford (Clifford)
- Francis
- Franklin (Frankie)
- Freddie
- George
- Gideon
- Glenn
- Graham
- Grant
- Hank
- Harry
- Harvey
- Henry
- Hugh
- Hugo
- Isaac
- Jack
- Jackson
- Jacob
- James
- Jason
- Jasper
- Jensen
- John
- Joseph (Joey)
- Joshua
- Jude
- Jullian
- Kennedy
- Kenneth
- Kent
- Lawrence
- Leonard
- Lewis
- Lincoln
- Linus
- Lucas
- Lyle
- Matthew
- Maximillian (Max)
- Miles
- Milo
- Neil
- Nolan
- Oliver (Ollie)
- Oscar
- Otto
- Paul
- Perry
- Pierce
- Preston
- Quincy
- Quentin
- Robert
- Ross
- Russell
- Samuel (Sam or Sammy)
- Sebastian
- Simon
- Sinclair
- Steven / Stephen
- Theodore (Teddy)
- Thomas (Tom)
- Tobias
- Tristan
- Truman
- Vincent
- Walt
- Wallace
- Warren
- William (Will)
- Zachary
So there you could have it. 100 or so traditional boy names that really feel time-honored and conventional. I really like all of them. At all times completely satisfied to call your child. Name me 😉