
A good friend 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 basic names) and each of our kids are named after our grandparents – one on John’s facet and one on my facet. So I had enjoyable placing collectively this checklist of my favourite 100 basic boy names. They really feel established, like they stand the check of time, and may 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 submit was that lots of the high ten hottest names for boys in 2024 are arguably fairly basic:
- #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 preferred boy names this yr, there are such a lot of different basic 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’ve it. 100 or so basic boy names that really feel time-honored and conventional. I like all of them. All the time glad to call your child. Name me 😉