1450+ English Names (with Meanings & Popularity)

Bobbsey Twins-era nickname name that could find new life via Nan, heroine of The Nanny Diaries. Nan was also the nickname of Annabel St George, the protagonist of Edith Wharton's novel "The Buccaneers".

Brittle.

Set apart from other once-male-only surnames because of its peaceful element. This is one of the newest and trendiest names that mean peace.

Unusual, but clear and strong.

Can be used as a middle name to honor Dad or Grandpa David.

Brings Jennifer into the twenty-first century.

For sailors or jazz lovers. Or smokers of menthol cigarettes.

Plummer might be an occupational name for someone who works with pipes -- yes, like a plumber -- or with feathers, from the Olde English (from the French) plume. Or it could indicate someone who lived near a plum tree.

Might be an honorific for novelist Saul Bellow, although bellowing is not the gentlest of sounds. Consider Saul instead.

There are two lovely Portlands, in Maine and Oregon, but not many babies with their name.

Echoes of two dated names: Lori and Linda.

A city name that sounds more legit than most because of its similarity to Peyton and other such names in circulation.

Literary, occupational, and very neglected.

In the Plymouth Colony of the seventeenth century, Thankful was the third most popular of the abstract word names. It disappeared after 1700 and has virtually no chance of returning.

Putting a C before Albert doesn't make this old occupational name any more contempo.

Butler name, and also that of the rat in Charlotte's Web.

Shaw is a streamlined and more modern-sounding Shawn, with many notable surname namesakes.

The -el ending feels inevitably feminine; also a form of French poetry.

Nothing but a hound dog.

Climbing a mountain somewhere with Radcliff and Heathcliff.