Spring Clean Your Boy Name List 🌱
Time for a refresh? Allow us to help...
Hands up if you find boy names harder than girls🙋
It’s a common complaint among name-seekers that there’s less middle ground for boys between well-trodden classics and bold statements — between your Jameses and your Jupiters — especially when you eliminate any “already taken” names you can’t use.
But familiar-but-not-boring, distinctive-but-not-weird names are our speciality. There really are plenty out there — here are our favourite sources of inspo this week.
Is this one? ⬆️ Depends which side of the Atlantic you’re on…
On the blog this week we’ve been transforming the Top 100 boy names to fresh alternatives: think Leo to Otto, Hudson to Halston.
Continuing with the spring renewal theme, how about updating grandpa and grandma names from the 1950s? With a little tweak, Mark and Carl become fresh Marcus and Charlie.
Our top spring baby names for boys are Phoenix, Xavier, Ash and Axel (there are lots of girl names on the list too)
If your country’s baby name charts don’t spark joy, look to Europe for fresh ideas. Our huge list of European boy names includes options like Bram and Baptiste, Lars and Leander. (There’s also a girl version!)
So much inspiration in the forums too: boy names under consideration this week include Seren, Conan, Alden, Amos, and Mars.