1450+ English Names (with Meanings & Popularity)

Only if you don't mind hearing yourself saying, "Come quickly, Quixley."

Related to the word bourgeois; actor Burgess Meredith put this surname in first place.

Could be a possible and more modern, namesake for Uncle Neal.

Cheever has a nice, cheery sound, literary ties to novelist and short writer John Cheever and also, sideways, to the Edward Arlington Robinson narrative poem "Miniver Cheevy," as well as a subliminal association with the desirable word achiever: all strong pluses.

Place name and surname that sounds a tad snooty.

Today's Veronicas would be called Veronica.

Obscure surname and Yorkshire and Lincolnshire place-name (where it's spelled Ferriby) makes a jaunty first. Placed in the public eye by Manhattan socialite Ferebee Bishop Taube.

This English surname offers an interesting mix of images: it sounds upper-crusty yet macho, and also conjures up the coziness of a wintery ski lodge. As a surname it is associated with the Massachusetts Republican Senate Minority Leader in the Woodrow Wilson era, Henry Cabot Lodge, who was the father of poet George Cabot Lodge and grandfather of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., who was ambassador to the UN and Richard Nixon's 1960 presidential running mate.

For now at least, Parton conjures up the larger-than-life image of Dolly. For an American boy, Patton or Peyton would probably be a better bet.

Pompous and pretentious.

Hopelessly nerdy.

To honor an ancestral Peter.

Has a certain fiery charm.

Forever still feels more like a sentiment than a name, and rather feminine at that.

Some will see this as spirited, others stuffy. The protagonist of the Edith Wharton novel The Age of Innocence was a popular and successful lawyer named Newbold Archer.

Commonly heard in the eighteenth century, but could cause middle-school titters today. Consider Letty or Tessie instead.

Gentle and southern-inflected, redolent of the North Carolina landscape.

A possible nod to grandpa Roger, though somewhat stuffy.

An original way to honor an ancestral Robert. Hobson is outside the Top 1000 but is among the fastest-rising names for boys.