UK Boy Names

Surname choice that's neither new nor bold. Newbold was the middle name of Edith Wharton.

Beautiful downtown Burbank -- about as glamorous a place-name as Akron...or Detroit.

Baby name as political statement.

Only if you don't mind hearing yourself saying, "Come quickly, Quixley."

This occupational choice is less appealing than such brethren as Baker and Baxter.

A child named Peale may have to endure more than a few banana jokes, but the Peales were a distinguished family of artists.

Some will see this as spirited, others stuffy. The protagonist of the Edith Wharton novel The Age of Innocence was a popular and successful lawyer named Newbold Archer.

A family name, a bit haughty.

If used at all these days, it would be to honor artist Jackson, whose first name would be far preferable.

Above par middle name possibility.

Hitting bottom.

Peel may seem at first like a cool name, until you consider the inevitable teasing. A peel was a tower that sheltered humans and animals against attack, though these days it's better known as the skin of a banana.

Dancer feels like a name ready to leap into the charts with its sense of life and joy; and if names like Hunter and Archer can be used, why not Dancer. There will be some danger of other kids relating this one to Santa's reindeer and it might make a good name for a Christmas baby, but that might be a positive connotation for a child.

So identified with the hero of the Sir Walter Scott novel, it would be almost impossible for any boy to carry.

A city and river in Scotland; this is upbeat and cheery, but doesn't seem that appropriate as a name.