1450+ English Names
- Botham
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"he who lives in a broad valley"Description:
Hitting bottom.
- Verle
- Durnell
Origin:
English surnameMeaning:
"grower of darnel"Description:
Darnel, the plant from which this name derives, is an intoxicating plant, which used to be grown to make medicines and poisons.
- Peterson
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"son of Peter"Description:
To honor an ancestral Peter.
- Butcher
Origin:
English occupational nameDescription:
One occupational name unlikely to find a single taker.
- Selvyn
- Wilfreda
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"purposeful peace"Description:
Hopelessly nerdy.
- Thomasa
Origin:
English, feminine variation of ThomasDescription:
One of those feminizations that came over shortly after the Mayflower but has been lost at sea ever since.
- Birkett
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"birch coastland"Description:
Birch or even Burke is better.
- Atherton
Origin:
English surname and place-nameDescription:
A rather formal British surname that originated as a place name in the county of Lancashire.
- Treena
Origin:
English, modern spelling variation of TrinaDescription:
See TRINA.
- Burroughs
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"dwelling place"Description:
Most parents attracted to this name will be devotees of the author William and would be better off using it in the middle.
- Jennison
Origin:
English surnameDescription:
Brings Jennifer into the twenty-first century.