UK Boy Names

A case in which the son is now more attractive than the father. There have been Colonial settlers surnamed Dennison on this side of the Atlantic since 1623.

Try telling the kids it really means "pretty face" and not "burper".

Surname choice that could be used to honor the playwright Lanford Wilson.

Cooper would be a more engaging C-starting occupational choice.

nature namesare in, and even fish names like Pike and Salmon are open for consideration.

Long-used surname name that's up for promotion to greater popularity.

Stronger and fresher than the original, though it may provoke the question, "Got a light?"

Even more uppity than Upton.

Not only did rocker John Mellencamp name his son Speck, but he appended the middle name Wildhorse to it.

A jolly, bawdy image that recalls the hero of the eighteenth-century novel Tristram Shandy; also a drink in British pubs.

Paterson is a surname-name to continue a line of Peters and also the name of a city in New Jersey, hometown of poets William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg.

Possible middle name to honor an ancestral Philip.

A popular first name in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, giving rise to surnames Gifford et al. Could enjoy a comeback thanks to trendy Griffin.

Unusual, but clear and strong.

For fans of the (female) author A. S. ; makes an interesting alternative to Wyatt or the hotelish Hyatt.

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.

Putting a C before Albert doesn't make this old occupational name any more contempo.

The final s turns this name into a manservant.