UK Boy Names

He'll have to prove his humility.

A family name that wouldn't appeal to many parents.

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.

Might be an honorific for novelist Saul Bellow, although bellowing is not the gentlest of sounds. Consider Saul instead.

Sounds like an endearment of Quinn.

Most Americans would take the easy way out and spell it Willem, as in artist de Kooning and actor Dafoe.

The -el ending feels inevitably feminine; also a form of French poetry.

Pleasant surname connected to humorist James Thurber, with a sound as happy as a baby's gurgle.

Climbing a mountain somewhere with Radcliff and Heathcliff.

Legitimizes the newly coined Denim, as does the Scottish place-name Denholm (both pronounced DEN-um).

Dickinson is a possibility for Richard's boy, though that Dick nickname is problematic no matter how you get to it.

Unusual, but clear and strong.

There are two lovely Portlands, in Maine and Oregon, but not many babies with their name.

Traditionally pronounced "ming-iz" and thus the relationship to the jazzy Mingus, Menzies is an old Scottish surname related to the more common Manners.

For sailors or jazz lovers. Or smokers of menthol cigarettes.

The final s turns this name into a manservant.

Shows some promise via its connection to the growing interest in Ewan.

Butler name, and also that of the rat in Charlotte's Web.