UK Baby Names

He'll have to prove his humility.

A family name that wouldn't appeal to many parents.

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.

Might be an honorific for novelist Saul Bellow, although bellowing is not the gentlest of sounds. Consider Saul instead.

Sounds like an endearment of Quinn.

Most Americans would take the easy way out and spell it Willem, as in artist de Kooning and actor Dafoe.

Brings Jennifer into the twenty-first century.

The -el ending feels inevitably feminine; also a form of French poetry.

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.

Pleasant surname connected to humorist James Thurber, with a sound as happy as a baby's gurgle.

Climbing a mountain somewhere with Radcliff and Heathcliff.

Legitimizes the newly coined Denim, as does the Scottish place-name Denholm (both pronounced DEN-um).

Dickinson is a possibility for Richard's boy, though that Dick nickname is problematic no matter how you get to it.

A traditional Welsh name that looks like a variant of Arden, but actually derives from the Welsh word for "beautiful".

Makes Ida more feminine but no more fashionable.

Unusual, but clear and strong.