UK Boy Names
- Bassett
Origin:
English, originally a nickname for a short personDescription:
Nothing but a hound dog.
- Glasgow
Origin:
Scottish place-nameDescription:
An undiscovered place-name with an appealing o-sound ending.
- Wolcott
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"cottage near a stream"Description:
One of many stuffy British W surnames that would subject an American boy to years of teasing before growing into it at age fifty.
- Durward
Origin:
English occupational nameMeaning:
"doorkeeper"Description:
Literary, occupational, and very neglected.
- Hill
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"someone who lives by a hill"Description:
Simple and down-to-earth, but would probably work best as a middle name.
- Udell
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"yew-tree valley"Description:
A secret nature name for boys.
- Kenn
Origin:
WelshMeaning:
"bright water"Description:
Occult name for babies born under water signs -- Pisces, Cancer, and Scorpio.
- Barnum
Origin:
English contraction of "baron's home"Meaning:
"baron's home"Description:
Inevitable circus association.
- Deiniol
- Burford
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"ford near the castle"Description:
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
Origin:
English surnameMeaning:
"dark wood or clearing"Description:
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.
- Nayland
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"island-dweller"Description:
Intriguing meaning, but stuffy sound.
- Cranston
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"the crane town"Description:
A surname associated these days with Breaking Bad actor Bryan Cranston.
- Radburn
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"reedy stream"Description:
Upper-crusty surname name.
- Inek
- Aland
- Tòmag
- Berton
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"fortified town"
- Filmore
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"very famous"Description:
Named for Millard. Or the late great rock palace.
- Northcliff
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"northern cliff"Description:
Stick with North.