1450+ English Names (with Meanings & Popularity)

Hippie name of the Jonathan Livingston Seagull era.

Only if he actually is.

Best known from actor-comedian Cleavon Little, Cleavon feels less soap opera than Cliff and quite really on-trend right now.

Dancer feels like a name ready to leap into the charts with its sense of life and joy; and if names like Hunter and Archer can be used, why not Dancer. There will be some danger of other kids relating this one to Santa's reindeer and it might make a good name for a Christmas baby, but that might be a positive connotation for a child.

Surname doomed to remain a surname.

Fresh way to pass down Roger.

One of the best of this fashionable occupational group, strong and particularly well suited to a girl, also with alluring connection to glamour girl Ava Gardner.

So identified with the hero of the Sir Walter Scott novel, it would be almost impossible for any boy to carry.

A name only a bully could love.

Peel may seem at first like a cool name, until you consider the inevitable teasing. A peel was a tower that sheltered humans and animals against attack, though these days it's better known as the skin of a banana.

Palin, as in, yes, one-time VP candidate Sarah, has emerged as a hot new first name, usually for girls.

A family name, a bit haughty.

Ruggedly appealing word name in the Thorn/Rider/Storm school of boys' names.

If blogger-in-chief Arianna's first name can rise through the name popularity charts, why not her surname? Uffa is an Old English personal name (we don't see that one coming back) and the suffix ton usually designates a town or village.

Not manly enough.

Packard feels as hefty and weighty as the old car.

The great-great-aunt in the purple hat, singing jazz.

A name you would probably want to use only if it's in your family history. The first syllable moves it miles away from the softer Whitney.

Baby name as political statement.

To honor an ancestral Peter.