1450+ English Names (with Meanings & Popularity)

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

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

Above par middle name possibility.

Forever still feels more like a sentiment than a name, and rather feminine at that.

Might make a good middle name for the child of a musician, though people could think you were honoring your BMW.

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.

Gentle and southern-inflected, redolent of the North Carolina landscape.

If this name makes you think of Victorian novels, it's because Fairfax was part of Mr Rochester's name in Jane Eyre, and the surname of a minor character in Jane Austen's Emma. It has a distinctly aristocratic feel, despite its straightforward meaning. Fairfax is also a city in Virginia.

Could catch on in tandem with the newfound popularity of Griffin and Griffith.

One of the best of this fashionable occupational group, strong and particularly well suited to a girl, also with alluring connection to glamour girl Ava Gardner.

Baby name as political statement.

Today's Veronicas would be called Veronica.

A family name, a bit haughty.

Surname doomed to remain a surname.

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

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

Hopelessly nerdy.

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.

This English surname offers an interesting mix of images: it sounds upper-crusty yet macho, and also conjures up the coziness of a wintery ski lodge. As a surname it is associated with the Massachusetts Republican Senate Minority Leader in the Woodrow Wilson era, Henry Cabot Lodge, who was the father of poet George Cabot Lodge and grandfather of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., who was ambassador to the UN and Richard Nixon's 1960 presidential running mate.

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