English Names
English names are rarely English all the way down. The language absorbed Norse from settlement, French from conquest and Latin from the church, so a name that arrived as a plain English word — a trade, a place, a color — usually rests on a root borrowed from somewhere else. What makes them English is the layer they settled in, not the layer underneath. The largest single group on this site, and the one that includes almost every surname now used as a first name.
Languages behind these names
Old English
Latin
Germanic
Greek
Hebrew
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Moxon Moxon is a rare boy's name from an English surname of Yorkshire and Suffolk.Boy English #6,385 in US
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Evermore Evermore is a rare modern girl's name meaning "forever" or "always," from the English adverb.Girl English #8,344 in US
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Reacher Reacher is a rare boy's name from Jack Reacher, the drifter hero of Lee Child's thrillers.Boy English #8,679 in US
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Brick Brick is a rare boy's name taken from the English word for a block of baked clay.Boy English #9,964 in US
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Covington Covington is an English surname used occasionally as a first name for boys and girls.Unisex English #13,825 in US
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Mattingly Mattingly is an English surname used occasionally as a first name, mainly for American girls.Unisex English 362 births