UK Baby Names

A better modern solution than Robert Jr. ; known to fiction readers via Canadian novelist Robertson Davies.

An old name still occasionally heard in the U.K., but still and perhaps forever a foreigner in the U.S. Can be spelled Ranulf.

Alaska's second most populous city makes a baby name with a preppy, even aristocratic, flavor.

Fortitude is the kind of virtue name the Puritans favored, but would not be easy for a modern boy to carry. Stick with something a little simpler than Fortitude, like Justice or True.

A once-popular nickname for Albert and Bertram now being polished up by hip Brits, but still hibernating in the Land of Nerd over here.

The name of the patron saint of Wales is virtually unknown in the US under this spelling. There were no baby boys named Dewi or Dewie in the US in 2021, though there were 35 named Dewey. Incredibly enough, Dewey ranked among the US Top 1000 for an entire century, from 1887 to 1986, reaching as high as Number 19 in 1898.

Sounds like an authentic upper-crust family name -- not necessarily a bad thing.

Stiff and sedate surname name, despite its salty start.

Surname from a landscape feature, associated with author Gore Vidal and Bill Clinton's Vice President Al Gore. Its alternative meaning - as in gory - may explain why it's never made it into the charts.

Belden is a little-used surname-name that might work in this age of Belles.

Despite two distinguished surname-bearers — the great British statesman William Pitt and heartthrob Brad, this would be a tough name to pull off in first place. William Thackeray used it for two generations of baronets in his novel Vanity Fair, the Sir Pitt Crawleys.

A medieval Welsh form of Tudor. Rhys ap Tewdwr was an 11th-century king of Deheubarth in Wales

Patsy has been rarely heard for half a century, for either gender, and we're not expecting that to change in the near future..

At one time associated with the fictional detective Bulldog Drummond, this formal surname name does boast the cute nickname Drum.

A solid, brief but not brusque single-syllable surname with a presidential pedigree.

Gerry was hep along with poodle skirts and banana splits.