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Well, my family is Jewish, and my boy cousins who are of my generation have pretty normal names like Joshua, Jason, Ross, Ethan, Caleb, Michael, Shane, and Jon(athan). However, almost all of them have their Hebrew names, and pretty strong Hebrew middles names, like Shane Ilan. Hope this helps.

Well, I know of Jewish boys named things like Jason, Aaron, Adam, Alan, Alex, Anthony, Benjamin, Nathan, Brendan/Brandon, Brian, Daniel, David, Eli, Ethan, Steve, Jeremy, Sam, Jesse, Jordan, Ryan, Josh, Mark, Matthew, Michael...

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Actually in my experience most of the Jewish families I know gave their children pretty common names for the time they were born in but gave them more "Jewish" middle names (like Shlomo, Gilli, Arieh, etc)

I don't think Moses or Isidore is popular among Jews today. I live in a very Jewish populated area and haven't met one of either. I have met a Moshe/Moishe (not sure on the spelling) though, he's Hasidic and is around 4 or 5 now.

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Jacob
Ariel (well it is English, and popular for guys here)
Ari
Samuel (big one)
David (big one)
Rafael / Raphael (+any angel name)
Isaac
Noah (big one)
Aaron
Seth (big one)
Allan

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It's hard because a lot of the Jews I know are Hasidic and have more uncommon names so I'm tempted to say names like Yoav and Dovid. Basically just look at the old Testament and pick out names.

I have Jewish cousins named Jeremy and Joshua. Not sure if those are popular, though. And Ira is another name that comes to mind.

As far as I know, (I might be wrong) Stephen.