UK Baby Names

The Dutch meaning (Buell is the Dutch occupational name for a hangman) is enough to keep most people away.

Keats is both poetic and easier to pronounce (it's keets) than Yeats (which is yates).

Nothing but a hound dog.

An undiscovered place-name with an appealing o-sound ending.

One of many stuffy British W surnames that would subject an American boy to years of teasing before growing into it at age fifty.

Literary, occupational, and very neglected.

Simple and down-to-earth, but would probably work best as a middle name.

A secret nature name for boys.

Occult name for babies born under water signs -- Pisces, Cancer, and Scorpio.

Inevitable circus association.

Somewhat flat-footed spelling variation.

One of those feminizations that came over shortly after the Mayflower but has been lost at sea ever since.

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.

Blakeley is one of the many -ley ending surnames that is being adopted as a first name, taking the 80s unisex darling Blake into the new millennium.

Intriguing meaning, but stuffy sound.

A surname associated these days with Breaking Bad actor Bryan Cranston.

Upper-crusty surname name.