Baby Names
Baby Names
Popular Names for Baby
Abel ... and is popular in Spain.
Abraham ... The name was popular while Abraham Lincoln was president and even after his assasination.
Addison ... The English poet and essayist Joseph Addison was popular and influential through the 18th century.
Adrian ... First popular in the 1950s in Britain ...
Ahmed ... and popular with Muslims in the US ...
Alan ... Popular in the Middle Ages ...
Alex ... Often used independently as Alexander has become more and more popular ... Russian form Alek is currently very popular in that country ...
Alexis ... Saint Alexis (fifth century) was a popular saint of Edessa ...
Alistair ... which has long been popular in Scotland ...
Allaster ... which made it popular in the 19th century.
Alonzo ... This form is more popular than Alfonso ...
Aloysius ... and was by made popular by the 16th-century Italian saint Aloysius ...
Alphonse ... thus very popular ... the most popular variant, is unusual ...
Alun ... Alun became popular after it was used as a bardic name by John Blackwell (19th century).
Amos ... perhaps because of lingering negative connotations from the highly politically incorrect radio show "Amos 'n Andy" that was popular in the 1940s and 1950s ...
André ... The form Andrey is popular in Russia ...
Aneirin ... Nye is the pet form made popular by the statesman Aneurin Bevan (20th century).
Angel ... The original Greek form Angelo is more popular now ... as Angel is usually a girl's name (although in Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel "Tess of the D'Urbervilles", a major male character is named Angel Clare.) Both forms are popular in Spanish-speaking countries ...
Antonio ... This form is even more popular than Antoine ...
Arcadio ... The Russian variant Arkady is a popular choice.
Archer ... Mildly popular in the 19th century ...
Archibald ... and popular largely in Scotland ...
Arlo ... Became popular in the early 1970s ...
Artemas ... The name was popular with the Puritans in the 17th century ...
Asa ... Made popular by the Puritans in the 17th century.
Avon ... Use as a given name may have been influenced by its similarity to the popular Evan.
Barclay ... This form is most popular in Scotland ...
Ben ... being especially popular in Ireland ...
Bingo Name of a very popular board game ...
Blaise ... The name is popular in France.
Brandon ... a variant of the less popular Brendan ...
Buell ... names like Grant and Scott became popular choices.
Buster ... Also a hugely popular comic strip character of the 1930s called Buster Brown ...
Caleb ... The name was popular among the Puritans ...
Calum ... This was popular among early Christians because the dove was a symbol of gentleness, purity, peace ...
Campion ... features in the popular murder mysteries of Margery Allingham.
Chandler ... Occupational name and surname popular for use as a given name ...
Charlie ... popular as an independent name.
Christmas ... The French form is more popular now ...
Christopher ... From Khristophoros. Popular among early Christians ...
Claude ... Popular in France (where it is sometimes used as a girl's name) due to the fame of seventh-century Saint Claude of Besançon ...
Cliff ... Made popular in the 1950s by pop singer Cliff Richard ...
Colin ... popular among the Campbells and the MacKenzies ...
Constantine ... The form Constant was popular among the Puritans as a virtue name ...
Cormac ... The name has been popular in Ireland since the earliest times.
Coty ... Use as a given name has probably been influenced by the popular Cody.
Craig ... The name is now popular in the English-speaking world.
Cyrano ... His talents and his extraordinary nose provided the inspiration for Rostand's popular play "Cyrano de Bergerac" (1897) ...
Dagwood ... Place name. In the popular comic strip "Blondie" ...
Daquan ... and is a popular element of invented names among the African-Americans.
Darius ... This name is popular with African-Americans.
Delbert ... The variant Dilbert is the title of a popular comic strip.
Derek ... From Theodoric. Many phonetic variants have come into popular usuage ...
Dieter ... Popular in Germany.
Donté ... This form is popular among African-Americans.
Dooley ... In the early 20th century author Finley Peter Dunne wrote popular newspaper essays that saw the world through the eyes of Martin Dooley ...
Edmund ... Name of a popular and sainted king of the East Angles in the ninth century ...
Egor ... Popular in Russia.
Elias ... Popular in Spain.
Eric ... Rider Haggard (in "Eric Brighteyes") used it in popular literature ... Erich is a popular German form ...
Estes ... a popular resort high in the Rockies ...
Ewing ... There was an Ewing family on the popular TV series "Dallas" in the 1980s ...
Forest ... The character Forrest in Winston Groom's novel and the popular film "Forrest Gump" is named for hard-charging Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest (and early member of the Ku Klux Klan) ...
Fortney ... Rhymes with the popular Courtney.
Francis ... Francois (frah-SWAH) is popular in France ...
Fraser ... Frasier (FRAY-zher) is notable today due to the popular TV comedy series.
Gabriel ... Gavriel is a Jewish variant popular in Russia ...
George ... George Washington made it as popular ...
Gervase ... There was a popular Saint Gervase.
Godfrey ... popular during medieval times ...
Grover ... Place name. Made popular in the US by President Grover Cleveland ...
Haley ... Place name. Hayley has become popular as a girl's name ...
Halley ... Hallie is popular as a girl's name ...
Hans ... The name is popular in Germany ...
Hassan ... Popular in the Arabic world ...
Hawk ... Hawkeye is a character played by Alan Alda in the popular TV serial M.A.S.H.
Helgi ... Popular in Scandinavia ...
Hobbes ... The popular cartoon stuffed tiger created by Bill Watterson was named after him.
Hugh ... Popular in the Middle Ages and the name of numerous saints ...
Isidore ... and Isidore was a popular name among the ancient Greeks ...
Jamal ... Popular among black or Muslim families in the US ...
Jaroslav ... Popular in Czechoslovakia ...
Jed ... Has a certain rustic aura due to the character Jed Clampitt on the popular TV show "The Beverly Hillbillies".
Joel ... The name is popular in Spain ...
John ... Possibly the most popular name in history ...
Julian ... Julien is the French form popular in France ...
Jurgen ... Popular in Germany ...
Kaycee Currently popular in Nigeria and Africa.
Kermit ... made famous by the popular green Muppet Kermit the Frog.
Killian ... The name is popular in France.
Lawrence ... The name was borne by a popular saint ...
Lucas ... Popular in Germany ...
Macadam ... Engineer Jon McAdam (19th century) gave his name to a popular method of paving roads.
Mahmud ... A popular name in the Arab world which comes from the same root as Muhammad.
Manasseh ... The anglicized version that is popular in Israel ...
Marmion ... Used by Sir Walter Scott as the title of a popular narrative poem. Rare.
Maximilian ... The name is popular in Germany ...
Meir ... Biblical name popular in Israel ...
Michael ... Michel is French and popular in the Netherlands ...
Moses ... and is popular in Jewish families ...
Nevin ... The name sounds similar to the popular Kevin.
Parker ... and popular in the 19th century as a given name ...
Paul ... Popular Roman and medieval name used commonly since the 18th century. Biblical ...
Peter ... The play "Peter Pan" has made the name popular ...
Raphael ... The name was popular in the 16th, 17th ...
Reginald ... Popular in Britain in the 19th century ...
Remus ... Made familiar by Joel Chandler Harris' "Uncle Remus" stories which were popular in the early 20th century.
Richard ... Ricardo is a popular Spanish and Portuguese form ...
Robin ... in popular use as a boy's name since the medieval days of Robin Hood ...
Rocco ... A common form of the name of a popular saint who cured plague victims ...
Roger ... Popular in the Middle Ages and the 19th and 20th centuries ...
Said ... and popular in Arabic countries ...
Sancho ... The name is popular in Spain.
Saturnin ... it was the merriest and most popular of the Roman festivals ...
Sebastian ... British use since the 1940s may have been influenced by a character in Evelyn Waugh's popular "Brideshead Revisited" ... Sebastien is popular in France ...
Shandy ... Name of a popular drink in Britain ...
Shane ... Popular in the 1950s and 1960s due to the film "Shane" ...
Sidney ... Used as given name in the 18th century and popular in the 19th ...
Spiridon ... Name of a fourth-century Cypriot sheep farmer who became a bishop and a popular Greek saint ...
Stavros ... and popular in Greece ...
Stephanus ... The popular blossom stephanotis ...
Stian ... Popular in Scandinavia ...
Theodore ... President Theodore Roosevelt made the name popular ...
Theophilus ... Biblical name used by Thorton Wilder in his popular novel "Theophilus North" ...
Thomas ... The name has been popular since the 12th-century martyr Thomas à Becket ...
Tremain ... Popular with African-American families.
Tristan ... The name is popular in Spain.
Troy ... Actor Troy Donahue made the name popular in the 1960s and 1970s ...
Tyree Modern name possibly based on an elaboration of the popular Ty- names.
Valentine ... Despite the popular Valentine's day ...
Viator ... A popular name among early Christians.
Victor ... A very popular saint's name common in Christian Rome ...
Vladimir ... Popular in Russia ...
Waldo ... the "Where's Waldo" children books were popular in the 1990s ...
Wallace ... Popular as a given name in the 19th century ...
Welby ... Place name. There was a popular tv series in the 1970s about a doctor named Marcus Welby.
Winston ... Also the name of a popular brand of cigarettes.
Woodstock ... which is still popular today.
Yesenin ... Sergei Yesenin was a popular Russian poet in the early 19th century.
Yucatan ... and is a popular vacation spot ...
Source: thinkbabynames.com