1450+ English Names

  1. Birley
    • Origin:

      English
    • Meaning:

      "meadow with the cow shed"
    • Description:

      A surname with a decidedly burley image.
  2. Bickford
    • Origin:

      English
    • Meaning:

      "axman's ford"
    • Description:

      Surname doomed to remain a surname.
  3. Birkett
    • Origin:

      English
    • Meaning:

      "birch coastland"
    • Description:

      Birch or even Burke is better.
  4. Newbold
    • Origin:

      English
    • Meaning:

      "new building"
    • Description:

      Surname choice that's neither new nor bold. Newbold was the middle name of Edith Wharton.
  5. Packard
    • Origin:

      English
    • Meaning:

      "pack, bundle,"
    • Description:

      Packard feels as hefty and weighty as the old car.
  6. Burford
    • Origin:

      English
    • Meaning:

      "ford near the castle"
    • Description:

      The stuffy-sounding name of a posh medieval village in the Cotswolds, in England, that some consider one of the most beautiful small towns in Europe.
  7. Atherton
    • Origin:

      English surname and place-name
    • Description:

      A rather formal British surname that originated as a place name in the county of Lancashire.
  8. Parr
    • Origin:

      English
    • Meaning:

      "enclosure"
    • Description:

      Above par middle name possibility.
  9. Mead
    • Origin:

      English
    • Meaning:

      "from the meadow"
    • Description:

      Sounds like an authentic upper-crust family name -- not necessarily a bad thing.
  10. Virle
    • Jennison
      • Origin:

        English surname
      • Description:

        Brings Jennifer into the twenty-first century.
    • Pascoe
      • Origin:

        English and Cornish variation of Pascale
      • Meaning:

        "Easter"
      • Description:

        Updates the old religious day name.
    • Treena
      • Origin:

        English, modern spelling variation of Trina
      • Description:

        See TRINA.