UK Baby Names

The x gives it some modern cool, but the bury part buries it.

Randall Jarrell was an important mid-20th century poet; his surname makes a pleasingly soft name for a girl.

Most parents attracted to this name will be devotees of the author William and would be better off using it in the middle.

The great-great-aunt in the purple hat, singing jazz.

Affrica has long been a popular name on the Isle of Man, where long ago there was a Princess named Affrica.

Prettier: the growing-in-popularity Paisley, a suburb of Glasgow, or even Scotland itself, used as a middle name by Kourtney Kardashian.

A name only a bully could love.

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

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.

This English surname offers an interesting mix of images: it sounds upper-crusty yet macho, and also conjures up the coziness of a wintery ski lodge. As a surname it is associated with the Massachusetts Republican Senate Minority Leader in the Woodrow Wilson era, Henry Cabot Lodge, who was the father of poet George Cabot Lodge and grandfather of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., who was ambassador to the UN and Richard Nixon's 1960 presidential running mate.

Saint Swithin or Swithun is best known for his feast day, July 15, which according to legend will determine the weather for the next 40 days.

Unusual, but clear and strong.