1450+ English Names (with Meanings & Popularity)

If there's an ancestral Earl you want to honor, consider Early instead.

Big Band-ish name could easily be confused with Darcy.

Distinguished though it is, it will never shake its portly cigar-smoking image.

Sounds like a displaced Dr. Seuss character.

A casual take on Corbin.

For sailors or jazz lovers. Or smokers of menthol cigarettes.

He'll have to prove his humility.

Do you really want to name your baby after a hotel? Or a famous-for-being-famous starlet?

Paterson is a surname-name to continue a line of Peters and also the name of a city in New Jersey, hometown of poets William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg.

A beautiful English and French flower name deriving from the Latin word for dove. Sadly, in America this name is now forever linked with a tragic terrorist attack on a Colorado high school.

Alvin, Melvin, Norvin -- most vin names, except maybe Kevin and Gavin -- are not vinners.

Only if he actually is.

The name Parson might have seemed ridiculous even a few years ago, but when Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe named their son Deacon, they opened up a whole new field of ecclesiastical cool. Bishop, Priest, and Pastor are other possibilities.

Despite its poetic associations, almost as dated as Sheldon, and more feminine.

Above par middle name possibility.

The x gives it some modern cool, but the bury part buries it.

One of the rare cases where spelling a name with a y makes it less rather than more feminine. Birdie might be the freshest choice in this aviary.

Associated with archetypal folksinger Pete Seeger.

An original way to honor an ancestral Robert. Hobson is outside the Top 1000 but is among the fastest-rising names for boys.

Not only did rocker John Mellencamp name his son Speck, but he appended the middle name Wildhorse to it.