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Lockwood
Lockwood is an English surname turned first name with Old English roots, derived from 'loc' meaning enclosure and 'wudu' meaning wood, essentially describing someone who lived near an enclosed…
Fairchild
English
"fair-haired child"
Only if it's a family name, and even then, better in the middle.
Mansfield
English surname
"field belonging to the man; open land by the River Maun"
An update on Manfred perhaps, with a cool literary tie to Jane Austen's novel, Mansfield Park , Mansfield is an English surname, borrowed from a variety of places in England. It may be interpreted in…
Shadow
English word name
A word name with a touch of mystery surrounding it, Shadow is a bold, edgy choice for a baby which some may find a bit ominous. While it is predominatly used for cats, dogs, and other furry friends,…
Graye
Graye is a distinctive masculine name with origins as a variant spelling of 'Gray.' Originally an English surname derived from the Old English 'græg' meaning 'gray-haired' or someone who wore gray…
Radcliffe
Radcliffe is a masculine name of English origin, derived from an Old English place name meaning 'red cliff.' It began as a surname indicating someone who lived near a red-colored cliff or slope…
Chisholm
Scottish surname
"dairy farmland near the water"
Chisholm is a habitational surname — if it's on your family tree, you have ancestors from Chisholme, Scotland, although they were originally of Norman and Saxon descent. Chisholm derived from the…
Turlington
English surname
"from Turlington, Leicestershire"
The surname Turlington denotes ancestors from a bygone Leicestershire town of the same name. Supermodel Christy Turlington Burns is a famous bearer.
Charlemagne
French
"Charles the Great"
The Old French name of the Frankish king Charles the Great (742-814), which surprisingly remained in the Top 500 in France until the mid-20th century.
Demarco
Demarco is a masculine given name that combines the prefix 'De' (often indicating 'of' or 'from' in Romance languages) with 'Marco,' the Italian form of Mark. The name Mark itself derives from Latin…
Byrne
Byrne is a masculine name of Irish and Gaelic origin, derived from Ó Broin, meaning "descendant of Bran." The name Bran translates to "raven" in Gaelic, giving Byrne associations with this…
Graves
Graves originated as an English surname derived from Middle English 'grave' or 'greve,' referring to either a steward/bailiff or someone who lived near a grove of trees. As a masculine given name,…
Penoyer
Variation of Pennoyer, Welsh surname
"golden head"
Penoyer is a rarer variation of the surname Pennoyer, derived from the Welsh component pen , meaning "head," and Latin aur , "gold." It doesn't refer to a blonde, but rather Golden Valley of…
Edgecombe
English surname
"a village on the edge of a valley"
There were various villages called Edgecombe (and Edgcumbe and Eggcumbe) in Old England, particularly in present-day Cornwall and Devon. Local families adopted it as a surname — habitational surnames…
Kensington
Place name
A posh area of London, as well as being a section of Brooklyn, Kensington would make an overly formal, butlerish boy's name. There are several preferable paths to the nickname Ken, including KENYON,…
Upton
English
"upper town"
Uppity name associated with muckraking novelist Upton Sinclair.
Llewelyn
Welsh
"lion"
A distinctively Welsh name that's feeling more and more usable these days.
Dubois
French surname
"of the forest"
Dubois, which can also be stylized as DuBois or Du Bois, is a surname derived from bois , the French word for "forest." A notable, namesake-worthy bearer is W. E. B. Du Bois (who actually pronounced…
Newcombe
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