1450+ English Names (with Meanings & Popularity)

If blogger-in-chief Arianna's first name can rise through the name popularity charts, why not her surname? Uffa is an Old English personal name (we don't see that one coming back) and the suffix ton usually designates a town or village.

To honor an ancestral Peter.

A name only a bully could love.

Obscure surname and Yorkshire and Lincolnshire place-name (where it's spelled Ferriby) makes a jaunty first. Placed in the public eye by Manhattan socialite Ferebee Bishop Taube.

Packard feels as hefty and weighty as the old car.

Place name and surname that sounds a tad snooty.

Best known from actor-comedian Cleavon Little, Cleavon feels less soap opera than Cliff and quite really on-trend right now.

Only if he actually is.

Hippie name of the Jonathan Livingston Seagull era.

Cheever has a nice, cheery sound, literary ties to novelist and short writer John Cheever and also, sideways, to the Edward Arlington Robinson narrative poem "Miniver Cheevy," as well as a subliminal association with the desirable word achiever: all strong pluses.

The great-great-aunt in the purple hat, singing jazz.

Fresh way to pass down Roger.

To honor an ancestral Peter.

Randall Jarrell was an important mid-20th century poet; his surname makes a pleasingly soft name for a girl.

A possible nod to grandpa Roger, though somewhat stuffy.

For now at least, Parton conjures up the larger-than-life image of Dolly. For an American boy, Patton or Peyton would probably be a better bet.

Has a certain fiery charm.

Ruggedly appealing word name in the Thorn/Rider/Storm school of boys' names.

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.