UK Baby Names

An original way to honor an ancestral Robert. Hobson is outside the Top 1000 but is among the fastest-rising names for boys.

Paterson is a surname-name to continue a line of Peters and also the name of a city in New Jersey, hometown of poets William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg.

One surname name unlikely to cross over to first.

Shows some promise via its connection to the growing interest in Ewan.

Fresh way to pass down Roger.

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.

Guthrie, folk singer Woody's last name, makes a perfectly fine first choice for a girl. Names such as Guthrie that have no gendered history can make true nonbinary names.

A name only a bully could love.

Stick with North.

See ST.

Dickinson is a possibility for Richard's boy, though that Dick nickname is problematic no matter how you get to it.

To honor an ancestral Peter.

Though they sound exactly alike, this spelling makes it much more elegant than Bernie.

Best known from actor-comedian Cleavon Little, Cleavon feels less soap opera than Cliff and quite really on-trend right now.

Darnel, the plant from which this name derives, is an intoxicating plant, which used to be grown to make medicines and poisons.

Santes Ffraid is the traditional Welsh name for St Bridget, the Irish national saint and legendary miracle worker. The connection becomes clearer through the Scottish form of the name, Bride. It's worth noting that it sounds like the English word "fried".