
Want a boy name that’s not popular, but also not unheard of?
I looked through all the names at the bottom of SSA’s 2011 mega-list and found a bunch of hidden gems:
- Alaric (48 baby boys)
- Alban (12)
- Aldous (11)
- Aldric (7)
- Alphonse (20)
- Archibald (14)
- Astor (5)
- Augustin (50)
- Balthazar (13)
- Barclay (6)
- Barnabas (8)
- Bartholomew (19)
- Booker (22)
- Chadwick (34)
- Cyril (41)
- Clancy (14)
- Claude (44)
- Clement (34)
- Crispin (21)
- Darcy (15)
- Dirk (40)
- Doyle (10)
- Ernst (6)
- Ferdinand (20)
- Garrick (42)
- Giles (20)
- Gregor (14)
- Griffith (18)
- Grover (9)
- Gustaf (7); Gustav (29)
- Horatio (10)
- Hubert (46)
- Ignatius (49)
- Isidore (7)
- Kermit (6)
- Lambert (6)
- Laird (17)
- Laurence (48)
- Laurent (9)
- Leander (48)
- Leith (7)
- Lemuel (50)
- Lowell (29)
- Maxfield (22)
- Newton (14)
- Nicanor (8)
- Norbert (9)
- Norris (21)
- Ogden (13)
- Orson (33)
- Osborn (5); Osborne (7)
- Oswald (18)
- Pascal (25)
- Percival (13)
- Peregrine (9)
- Piers (16)
- Regis (10)
- Remis (11)
- Roscoe (47)
- Rudolph (44)
- Rufus (39)
- Rupert (8)
- Sanford (6)
- Seymour (6)
- Sherman (40)
- Sinclair (8)
- Tavish (16)
- Thane (48)
- Tobiah (14)
- Walton (14)
- Warner (48)
- Watson (42)
- Webster (8)
- Weldon (27)
- Werner (11)
- Wilbert (42)
- Wilbur (20)
- Winfield (7)
- Winfred (7)
- Winslow (10)
- York (5)
- Zebulon (25)
- Zeno (13)
(In some cases, a different spelling of the name is more popular than what’s shown here. For instance, Laurence is rare, but Lawrence is moderately popular.)
Like any of these?
Spot any other good names at the end of the list?
(Here’s the girls’ list.)