UK Boy Names

If Hunter just isn't full enough for you, place name Huntington might be a better option.

Variously spelled Swithun or Swithin, and associated with St. Swithin's day, July 15th, which is famous as a weather predictor a la Groundhog's Day: supposedly, the weather on his feast day will continue for forty days. This would certainly make a unique choice.

We don't see that bright a future for this one either.

Though we usually think a name's image in contemporary culture supersedes its ancient meaning, this is a case where the definition could undermine a child's self-esteem.

Double whammy: the expression "Seward's folly" and inevitable sewer jokes.

Gently pleasant English family name long associated with 60-Minuteman Morley Safer.

This Old Welsh name associated with blacksmiths has never caught on, but it has the right two-syllable occupational feel to qualify for revival. Gower Champion was a successful midcentury dancer, choreographer and director on the Broadway stage, in films and on TV.

Old-fashioned, conjuring up an ardent suitor in a bow tie and straw boater.

Only if it's a family name, and even then, better in the middle.

No competition for Jackson.

If you prefer the woods to the ocean, you'll want to name your son (or daughter) Beech instead of Beach.

A noble surname from northern England that has occasionally been used as a first name.

Very popular in Wales; this could make a nice middle name in honor of a Grandpa Glenn.

One step up from Irwin, and that's not nearly enough.

Forster, a variation of Foster or potentially even Forester, is associated with British novelist E.M. Forster, author of A Passage to India, Howard's End, and A Room with a View. But if you choose Forster, you'd always have to force that 'r'.