Fusty Boys Names For example..

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Registered: 11-19-2005
Fusty Boys Names For example..
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Mon, 11-28-2005 - 1:12am

What boys names do you consider slighty old man-ish, fusty choices.

ie: oscar, gus, roscoe etc.

are these becoming cute again??

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Registered: 10-11-2005
Mon, 11-28-2005 - 8:57am
They are all coming back into style. I have always considered Gus an "old man" name, but now I'm starting to change my opinion. I still think of Bill, Bob, Ernest, and Lewis as "old man" names.
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Registered: 09-13-2005
Mon, 11-28-2005 - 9:22am

absolutely!

the previous poster mentioned Lewis, which is the #1 boys' name in Scotland for 2004. Archie, Angus, Ross, Hector, Arthur, Fergus, Alistair, Tobias, Rufus, Gordon,Barnaby, Russell, Fraser and Hugh have all come up in birth announcements in Canada and the UK in the last few months-not sure if that's exactly what you're looking for, but they seem like "fusty" older names to me.

fusty's a brilliant word, by the way.

-Sisi

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 11-28-2005 - 12:31pm

The older, the better these days.

Some are fussy, some are stiff, IMO.

Fussy- Theodore, Anthony, Oliver, Russell, Louis, Stuart, Winston, Arthur, Chester, Timothy, Nathaniel, Perry, Silas, Gideon, Lamar, Charles

Stiff- Walter, Richard, Orville, Rupert, Lemuel, Edward,

Old but cute- Hugh, Warren, Jed, Leland, Phillip, Preston, Bryant, Ross, Leander, Everett, Lachlan, George, Anton

Later, Ginger

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Mon, 11-28-2005 - 1:43pm

Some others that I don't think I've seen on other lists and that I'm starting to see on new babies...

Owen
Leo
Griffin
Henry
George
Wesley
Spencer

A few that I don't think have ever really gone "out of style", but some may consider old mens' names...
Charles
Edward
John
Richard
Robert
Thomas
Paul

A few that I still can't imagine on a baby boy...
Walter
Wilbur
Harold
Lester

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Mon, 11-28-2005 - 10:45pm

Here are some I couldn't imagine naming a baby boy:


Cornelious (Corny!), Abraham, Wayne, Ralph, Grant, Phillip (sorry dad!), Lloyd, Bernard, Clifford, Lenord, Lawrence...


I could go on and on...lol