UK Boy Names

A video-game name ("Final Fantasy VII") with an unappealing sound and meaning.

Distinguished actor Hume Cronyn (who shared his father's name) put this unusual choice in the lexicon.

Too tightly associated with the real-life villainous Captain Bligh of The Mutiny on the Bounty.

Two-syllable place-names are stylish, and this one is attached to a British city noted for its white chalk cliffs, but there are a couple of minuses: associated with the fish, Dover sole, and also rhymes with the doggy Rover.

Unique name for the son of a woodworker.

Birch or even Burke is better.

Why not stick with the original.

Writer Anne Tyler gave this apt name to the hippie child in her novel Amateur Marriage, but she wasn't the first -- it was also used by the Puritans. Today it would be quite a loaded choice.

With Devon so overused, consider a move to the undiscovered neighboring county -- though it's nowhere near as euphonious, rhyming with corset.

As always, that oy sound is problematic.

Other occupational names would be more commonly accepted, though the Mad Men character has certainly brought it to the fore.

Attractive placename/surname with a somewhat aristocratic feel.

Here too lies the danger of entitlement.

Just the kind of old-fashioned nickname coming back into style.

Lively, friendly surname that might appeal to basketball fans.

Historically interesting via the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which supported the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine.

Rekker comes to us thanks to actor Cam Gigandet, who gave his son this phonetic spelling of badass word name Wrecker. Use at your own peril.