UK Boy Names

While this has a distinguished male namesake -- astronomer Edmund Halley and his comet -- it still strays too close to the superpopular feminine Hailey family to work for some parents for a boy. Fewer than five baby boys were given the name last year, but that could change as formerly-female names become more acceptable for boys.

Could be a possible and more modern, namesake for Uncle Neal.

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

Double whammy: the expression "Seward's folly" and inevitable sewer jokes.

Clumsy when used as a first name.

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

Not manly enough.

This surname name may offer a pronunciation challenge, to those unfamiliar with Michael Crichton novels, but its fresher than Hunter or Cooper.

Pompous and pretentious.

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.

Related to the word bourgeois; actor Burgess Meredith put this surname in first place.

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