1450+ English Names (with Meanings & Popularity)

Try Abraham or Lincoln instead.

Sounds like a Hobbit.

A jolly, bawdy image that recalls the hero of the eighteenth-century novel Tristram Shandy; also a drink in British pubs.

Another stiff northerly choice.

Superseded by Lauren.

A case in which the son is now more attractive than the father. There have been Colonial settlers surnamed Dennison on this side of the Atlantic since 1623.

Rekker comes to us thanks to actor Cam Gigandet, who gave his son this phonetic spelling of badass word name Wrecker. Use at your own peril.

A casual take on Corbin.

Drover, an ancient occupational surname, is right in step with today's styles and would make a distinctive choice. Drover and brothers are fresh updates of such now-widely-used names as Carter and Cooper.

Unless it was your grandmother's maiden name, and you're using it in the middle place, we don't think so. Could be confused with Hazelden, a leading rehab facility.

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

Makes Ida more feminine but no more fashionable.

Has a fresh occupational name feel, combined with old-fashioned Currier & Ives charm.

Other occupational names would be more commonly accepted, though the Mad Men character has certainly brought it to the fore.

A rowdy name nobody ever heard of, till Nick Nolte gave it to his son.

With Devon so overused, consider a move to the undiscovered neighboring county -- though it's nowhere near as euphonious, rhyming with corset.

Try telling the kids it really means "pretty face" and not "burper".

Forever the upstairs neighbor on The Honeymooners.

Long-used surname name that's up for promotion to greater popularity.

Chosen by Woody Allen for his son with Mia Farrow (now renamed Seamus), honoring the great old-time baseball player Satchel Paige, and by Spike Lee for his daughter, but far too eccentric for ordinary use.