930+ English Names for Boys

"Saturday Night Live" cast member Finesse Mitchell often mocks his own and similar names when portraying the character Starkeisha on the show.

For Grandpa Vincent.

Mama's boy.

British place-name unlikely to evoke much passion in any baby namer.

Rochester was Jack Benny's famous valet and sidekick, played by early African-American comic Eddie Anderson.

One of the surname names used more in the last century, à la Milton and Morton.

This name may be related to the Latin Maximus, which means "the greatest," or to a British landowner's name, but for most modern parents, it's one of several ways to get to short form Max.

New is a middle name name with meaning: Your baby, after all, is new to the world and you may hope will continue to approach life and experience as if everything is new and exciting.

Perhaps if there's a Putnam in your background.

Slightly more modern than Walter, but only just.

A surname style choice that could get you nicknames Bear and Ozzy, which is pretty cool. It comes from the Old English variant of the Old Norse Ásbjǫrn, which was introduced to England after the Norman conquest and used occasionally as a given name ever since. Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell used the spelling variation Osborne in her final novel, Wives and Daughters.

Stowe, the name of a beautiful mountain town in Vermont as well as the surname of the great author Harriet Beecher, is one of the oldest last names on record. The meeting place the name Stowe refers to is part of a church. Stowe might make a distinctive and meaningful middle name for skiers or Uncle Tom's Cabin fans.

A neglected surname name that could substitute for the more common Gordon, which has in the past associated with the milk company and Elsie the Cow.

This is an English surname dating back to 1086, but we don't see it having much of a first name future in the twenty-first century.

The x gives it some modern cool, but the bury part buries it.

Down-to-earth surname name with a drawl, also associated with cereal and dog food.

Best known as a hotel company, but shares some of the cool sounds of Wyatt.

Besides having an unappealing sound, has long been identified with a much-mocked Ford car model; use of this name is now restricted to the Ford family.

Rarely heard name that could sub for Graham.

Innovative architect, inventor, and thinker Buckminster (universally known as Bucky) Fuller makes this vaguely possible.