UK Baby Names

One of the rare English surname names originally derived from a female given name: Eoforhild, meaning "boar battle". Also spelled Averill, it's an extremely rare choice today, but shares sounds with fashionable Avery.

Trevor with a New York accent.

A surname with more force than most.

Stuffy presidential choice: consider Hayes instead.

Obscure, though legitimate, name that could be used to honor a relative named Barton or Martin.

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

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

Adventurous word choice, but still quite a burden for a child to bear.

Kind of a combination of scoot and fleet, brought into public domain by actor Skeet (born Brian) Ulrich. We would recommend looking into the unsavory slang meaning of this name before choosing it for your child.

As seen on SNL, Pat is the ultimate androgynous name. Stick with long form Patrick, and make sure everyone calls him Patrick.

The cake company pretty much knocked this otherwise-pretty compilation name out of consideration for most parents.

Kimberley is a town in South Africa associated with diamonds and with wealth and luxury in general. It was name for Lord Kimberley, whose surname derived from an English place name. Used for boys in the early twentieth century, it re-emerged as a girls' name in the 1940s, usually spelled Kimberly.

Rather formal word name that has been used occasionally over the years, most notably for the autism activist and animal expert Temple Grandin.

Wharton is a rather stiff banker name that becomes creative as a middle name choice for lovers of the novels of writer Edith.

Rarely used un-Gaelic-sounding Scottish name with literary associations to Erskine Caldwell, author of Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre.

We're not too surprised that Shelton Lee changed his name to Spike.

Lively and engaging Scottish surname, particularly appropriate for a boy born on Monday.

Pretty and distinctive choice for poetry lovers.

Rarely heard surname name that lacks the lightness of other o-ending names.