930+ English Names for Boys

If blogger-in-chief Arianna's first name can rise through the name popularity charts, why not her surname? Uffa is an Old English personal name (we don't see that one coming back) and the suffix ton usually designates a town or village.

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

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

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.

Double whammy: the expression "Seward's folly" and inevitable sewer jokes.

Surname doomed to remain a surname.

Family name best used in the middle, especially since it was seen as the portly postman in Seinfeld.

Fresh way to pass down Roger.

A name you would probably want to use only if it's in your family history. The first syllable moves it miles away from the softer Whitney.

Pompous and pretentious.

Might make a good middle name for the child of a musician, though people could think you were honoring your BMW.

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

To honor an ancestral Peter.

Could catch on in tandem with the newfound popularity of Griffin and Griffith.

If this name makes you think of Victorian novels, it's because Fairfax was part of Mr Rochester's name in Jane Eyre, and the surname of a minor character in Jane Austen's Emma. It has a distinctly aristocratic feel, despite its straightforward meaning. Fairfax is also a city in Virginia.

Clumsy when used as a first name.

Ruggedly appealing word name in the Thorn/Rider/Storm school of boys' names.

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

To honor an ancestral Peter.