930+ English Names for Boys

The y helps a bit, but still a painful image.

Pell makes an unusual middle name choice. And if grandpa Seymour was a fur trader, you might do better to honor him by naming the baby Pell.

Solid Philip middle name alternative.

Pembroke's brother.

A twist on Darwin with the same friendly meaning. Its lovable-nerd feel is given a cool edge by several football players with the name.

Waspy-sounding choice, well known in literature for Boswell's Life of Johnson.

Over the top for even the most ardent Anglophile. Sacheverell Sitwell was a member of the prominentliterary Sitwell family.

It's a hat, it's a race, and it's even been known to be a name. In Britain, it would be pronounced darby.

Also an English surname, Sender derives from Alexander and has an attractive modern sound. Though given to only a handful of baby boys per year, it nevertheless is in step with the brotherhood of er-ending choices fashionable today.

Sadler is another new entrant in the trendy occupational surname category, one particularly prime for a horse lover.

Kind of a combination of scoot and fleet, brought into public domain by actor Skeet (born Brian) Ulrich. We would recommend looking into the unsavory slang meaning of this name before choosing it for your child.

As seen on SNL, Pat is the ultimate androgynous name. Stick with long form Patrick, and make sure everyone calls him Patrick.

One step up from Irwin, and that's not nearly enough.

Bulky surname honoring Grandpa Henry or Saul Bellow's Rain King.

For fans of Warren G. All two of them.

A decade or two ago, we might have stopped with Blake, but today the surname Blakely or Blakeley sounds more modern as a first name.

If you find West not substantial enough, this would make a more solid path to it.

Could be difficult to grasp: Hoss. The "Bonanza" cowboy.

Rather formal word name that has been used occasionally over the years, most notably for the autism activist and animal expert Temple Grandin.

The name of the teenaged son on the dear departed television show "Huff."