English Names that Start With B

One in the currently modish aden family of boys' names beginning to be used for girls as well as boys. The name Brayden was given to 15 baby girls in the US last year....and over 5000 baby boys, so it can hardly be considered gender neutral, but rather a boys' name occasionally used for girls.

Short but not particularly sweet surname.

For 007 fans, a great middle name choice -- or even a first.

With its slightly cocky feel, this well-used surname is not often heard as a first.

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

Let's hope he's "burly".

The suffix Bran is familiar as raven-related since Game of Thrones, and the -ley suffix has been popular since the 1990s heyday of Ashley.

Rarely heard last-name-first choice with nice gardenlike feel.

We don't see that bright a future for this one either.

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

A surname with more force than most.

Berold is one of the more obscure boy names meaning bear, which also include Arthur, Orson, and (in a different vein) Teddy.

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

We can hear the kids teasing him from here.

Comes with a monocle.

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.

A more unusual, if slightly snooty, masculine Bailey alternative.

One of several trendy boys' names now being adopted for girls with feminized spellings.

Another servile surname, this one connected to the go-between character in "Charlie's Angels."

Upper-crusty hotelish surname.