UK Baby Names
- Vane
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"banner"Description:
He'll have to prove his humility.
- Nesbit
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"land or river bend shaped like a nose"Description:
A family name that wouldn't appeal to many parents.
- Plummer
Origin:
English occupational nameDescription:
Plummer might be an occupational name for someone who works with pipes -- yes, like a plumber -- or with feathers, from the Olde English (from the French) plume. Or it could indicate someone who lived near a plum tree.
- Bellow
Origin:
English occupational nameMeaning:
"bellows maker"Description:
Might be an honorific for novelist Saul Bellow, although bellowing is not the gentlest of sounds. Consider Saul instead.
- Quinney
Origin:
ManxMeaning:
"son of Crafty"Description:
Sounds like an endearment of Quinn.
- Ceit
- Uilleam
Origin:
Scottish variation of WilliamDescription:
Most Americans would take the easy way out and spell it Willem, as in artist de Kooning and actor Dafoe.
- Moibeal
- Jennison
Origin:
English surnameDescription:
Brings Jennifer into the twenty-first century.
- Rondel
Origin:
English from FrenchMeaning:
"circle"Description:
The -el ending feels inevitably feminine; also a form of French poetry.
- Yeats
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"gates"Description:
Yeats, the strong name of the great Irish poet, would work better for a boy. Also has possible pronunciation problem with people who might think it rhymes with Keats. Yeats rhymes with the word from which it's derived: gates.
- Thurber
Origin:
NorseMeaning:
"Thor the warrior"Description:
Pleasant surname connected to humorist James Thurber, with a sound as happy as a baby's gurgle.
- Sutcliff
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"from the southern cliff"Description:
Climbing a mountain somewhere with Radcliff and Heathcliff.
- Denham
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"village in a valley"Description:
Legitimizes the newly coined Denim, as does the Scottish place-name Denholm (both pronounced DEN-um).
- Alick
- Dickinson
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"son of Dick"Description:
Dickinson is a possibility for Richard's boy, though that Dick nickname is problematic no matter how you get to it.
- Arddun
Origin:
WelshMeaning:
"beautiful"Description:
A traditional Welsh name that looks like a variant of Arden, but actually derives from the Welsh word for "beautiful".
- Idalina
Origin:
English elaboration of IdaDescription:
Makes Ida more feminine but no more fashionable.
- Doane
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"low, rolling hills"Description:
Unusual, but clear and strong.
- Ruaraidh