UK Baby Names
- Ailean
- Nonn
Origin:
WelshMeaning:
"nun"Description:
The spelling makes the tradition Non even more of a non-name.
- Reynold
Origin:
ScottishMeaning:
"powerful counsel"Description:
Used for girls in Scotland in the sixteenth century; this would make a bold but bonnie choice.
- Yale
Origin:
WelshMeaning:
"vigorous, fertile"Description:
Ivy League choice many will mistake for the Israeli favorite Yael, which has a different root and meaning.
- Adelbert
- Keverne
Origin:
Cornish saint and place nameDescription:
St. Keverne is a town on Cornwall's Lizard Peninsula and also the name of an ancient saint. While the name is virtually unused for children in the modern world, it could be a Kevin update and has contemporary possibilities.
- Aimil
- Daffydd
- Nayland
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"island-dweller"Description:
Intriguing meaning, but stuffy sound.
- Barnum
Origin:
English contraction of "baron's home"Meaning:
"baron's home"Description:
Inevitable circus association.
- Udell
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"yew-tree valley"Description:
A secret nature name for boys.
- Kenn
Origin:
WelshMeaning:
"bright water"Description:
Occult name for babies born under water signs -- Pisces, Cancer, and Scorpio.
- Inek
- Meurig
- Newbold
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"new building"Description:
Surname choice that's neither new nor bold. Newbold was the middle name of Edith Wharton.
- Burford
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"ford near the castle"Description:
The stuffy-sounding name of a posh medieval village in the Cotswolds, in England, that some consider one of the most beautiful small towns in Europe.
- Kynaston
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"royal peace settlement"Description:
A dignified yet gentle surname name occasionally heard in England and the West Indies.
- Radburn
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"reedy stream"Description:
Upper-crusty surname name.
- Shaw
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"lives by the thicket"Description:
Shaw is a streamlined and more modern-sounding Shawn, with many notable surname namesakes.
- Litton
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"settlement on the hill"Description:
Slightly less stiff and small if spelled Lytton.