1450+ English Names (with Meanings & Popularity)

Sounds as if it should have a Sir before it or a shire following it.

Blakeley is one of the many -ley ending surnames that is being adopted as a first name, updating the 80s darlings Blake and Ashley.

With its slightly cocky feel, this well-used surname is not often heard as a first.

Feels like a hybrid. Better go for Edith or Evelyn.

Used as a first name for a handful of girls every year, Joplin could be seen as a distant cousin of other -lin names, like Caitlin, Brooklyn and Braelynn. We think it works even better as a musical middle name possibility for fans of Janis... or Scott. Both great connections — albeit very different from one another.

With Yale and Brown in the mainstream, why not this upscale college name and surname as well.

Not time yet for Thyme.

This old-time name for a sofa would not be comfortable as a baby name.

Although it connotes a sense of well-being, not likely to be a popular choice.

Heard in a sixties spy movie, The Quiller Memorandum, this uncommon occupational name has an offbeat charm.

Huntley was best known as Brinkley's news partner several decades ago. With the new genre of girls' names that are unusual surnames ending with the lee sound -- think Mosley, Yardley -- Huntley or Huntlea or Huntleigh might rise for girls.

Very occasionally given to boys born on that day; Noel is a more common name for Christmas babies.

New Testament, Texas, and Kansas place-name more fitting for a girl.

One of the bird names that's more appropriate for a boy, though it works for a girl too.

Jagger, made famous as the surname of Rolling Stone Mick, gets an entry in the girls' column thanks to Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross, who chose it for their daughter. For either gender, this name rocks...but a bit jaggedly. Currently, there are nearly 20 times as many baby boys than girls are given the name Jagger. That balance may shift, making Jagger a more truly gender neutral name.

Brooke variation – or is the other way around? – that makes it more a nature name, less an eighties-style androgynous name.

A diminutive diminutive, too tease-worthy.

The Anglophile Howard.

A bit too cunning.

An old English redhead name -- one of the few that doesn't begin with the letter r -- with references both to a famous French knight and a magical horse.