UK Baby Names

Two-syllable place-names are stylish, and this one is attached to a British city noted for its white chalk cliffs, but there are a couple of minuses: associated with the fish, Dover sole, and also rhymes with the doggy Rover.

Forever the hapless cartoon husband of Blondie.

Unique name for the son of a woodworker.

Birch or even Burke is better.

Distinguished actor Hume Cronyn (who shared his father's name) put this unusual choice in the lexicon.

Latter-day Ashley that comes in a range of spelling variations. Ansley and Ainsley have both hit the Top 1000 in recent years.

Wrecker is a new entry to the newly trendy group of badass baby names -- names mostly for boys that sound wild (or Wilder) and summon the kind of kid that races around (Racer), breaking things (Breaker), and yeah, why not, being a Wrecker while he's at it. Actor Cam Gigandet introduced this one, with a more phonetic spelling, when he named his son Rekker.

An obscure possibility...for a girl.

In British slang, a "prat" is an idiot -- enough said.

Sounds like a Hobbit.

One occupational name unlikely to find a single taker.

Another stiff northerly choice.

Cooper would be a more engaging C-starting occupational choice.

With Devon so overused, consider a move to the undiscovered neighboring county -- though it's nowhere near as euphonious, rhyming with corset.

Charming Dickensian route to Nick.

A jolly, bawdy image that recalls the hero of the eighteenth-century novel Tristram Shandy; also a drink in British pubs.