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
43 names, very rare — fewer than 25 babies a year, in the United States
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Moxon Moxon is a rare boy's name from an English surname of Yorkshire and Suffolk.Boy English 14 in 2025
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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 7 in 2025
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Covington Covington is an English surname used occasionally as a first name for boys and girls.Unisex English 6 in 2025