UK Baby Names

Do you really want to name your baby after a hotel? Or a famous-for-being-famous starlet?

Emily substitute, though it sounds like a child's mispronunciation of "enemy".

Has a positive meaning and a nickname feel. Sealey was a feminine name in medieval times but would be equally stylish (and rare) for both sexes now.

Gerry was hep along with poodle skirts and banana splits.

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.

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

Quintessentially, stylelessly preppy.

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.

For towheads with ties to Scotland -- in theory, anyway.

Gently pleasant English family name long associated with 60-Minuteman Morley Safer.

The final s turns a nature name into a Waspy surname.

This rarely heard name pares down all the ultrafeminine Dan names to one that's much more powerful, for both boys and girls.

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

Thompson is not as popular as Jackson or Harrison, but a novel way to circumvent Junior for the son of a Thomas.

A Middle English form of Adalbert (and therefore of Albert), which was the name of several Saxon kings. Nowadays, Ethel plus Bert is not a fashionable sound, but Albert is feeling fresh again.