Algernon

AL-jer-non

French

"moustached man"

Algernon Rank in US Top 1000

# 964 in the US

Popularity of the name Algernon

• 1112 Nameberry 2025

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Famous People Named Algernon

• Algernon Charles Swinburne English poet
• Algernon Henry Blackwood English novelist
• Algernon Sidney English political philosopher and politician
• Algernon Sidney Paddock U.S. Senator from Nebraska
• Algernon Robert Fitzhardinge Kingscote British tennis player
• Algernon H. Lee American socialist politician and educator
• Algernon Usborne Willis British fleet admiral
• Algernon Griggs "Algie" McBride American baseball player
• Ralph George Algernon Percy 12th Duke of Northumberland

The name Algernon in Pop Culture

• Algernon Rowan Webb: character on TV's "The Worst Witch"
• Algernon Moncrieff: young man about,town in Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" (from the 1895 play: "I really can't see why you should object to the name of Algernon. It is not at all a bad name. In fact, it is rather an aristocratic name. Half of the chaps who go into the Bankruptcy Court are called Algernon.")
• J. Algernon Hawthorne: character portrayed by Terry Thomas in the 1963 film "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"