930+ English Names for Boys

Unique name for the son of a woodworker.

Birch or even Burke is better.

Why not stick with the original.

Writer Anne Tyler gave this apt name to the hippie child in her novel Amateur Marriage, but she wasn't the first -- it was also used by the Puritans. Today it would be quite a loaded choice.

With Devon so overused, consider a move to the undiscovered neighboring county -- though it's nowhere near as euphonious, rhyming with corset.

As always, that oy sound is problematic.

Other occupational names would be more commonly accepted, though the Mad Men character has certainly brought it to the fore.

Here too lies the danger of entitlement.

Just the kind of old-fashioned nickname coming back into style.

Lively, friendly surname that might appeal to basketball fans.

Rekker comes to us thanks to actor Cam Gigandet, who gave his son this phonetic spelling of badass word name Wrecker. Use at your own peril.

A case in which the son is now more attractive than the father. There have been Colonial settlers surnamed Dennison on this side of the Atlantic since 1623.

Try telling the kids it really means "pretty face" and not "burper".

Surname choice that could be used to honor the playwright Lanford Wilson.

Cooper would be a more engaging C-starting occupational choice.

nature namesare in, and even fish names like Pike and Salmon are open for consideration.

Long-used surname name that's up for promotion to greater popularity.

Even more uppity than Upton.

Not only did rocker John Mellencamp name his son Speck, but he appended the middle name Wildhorse to it.

A jolly, bawdy image that recalls the hero of the eighteenth-century novel Tristram Shandy; also a drink in British pubs.