Old English Boy Names
Old English names include compact surviving forms and longer names carried through medieval England. The collection balances recognizable names with less-used choices. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recorded in Old English; in U.S. records from 1880. | 230#993 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 1924 | ||
Old English-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880. | 47#2,759 | Up 44 rank positions in five years | 1915 | ||
Old English-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880. | 29#3,843 | Up 68 rank positions in five years | 1920 | ||
Old English-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1912. | 1,862#194 | Up 159 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Old English-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880. | 479#598 | Up 74 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Old English-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880. | 5#12,270 | Down 29 rank positions in five years | 1919 | ||
Old English-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880. | 108#1,575 | Up 325 rank positions in five years | 1919 | ||
Old English-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880. | —Unranked | — | 1922 | ||
Old English-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880. | 76#1,993 | Up 739 rank positions in five years | 1919 | ||
Old English-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1927. | 12#6,925 | Down 2,744 rank positions in five years | 1989 | ||
Old English-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1936. | 90#1,779 | Up 227 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Old English-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1914. | 36#3,262 | Down 934 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Old English-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1904. | 6#11,770 | new | 1961 | ||
Old English-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1917. | 35#3,369 | Down 1,138 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
Recorded in Old English as Cædmon; in U.S. records from 1999. | 7#9,864 | Down 4,986 rank positions in five years | 2010 | ||
Old English-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880. | —Unranked | — | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Old English; in U.S. records from 1977. | 10#8,163 | Down 1,179 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Old English-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1905. | —Unranked | — | 1922 | ||
Recorded in Old English; in U.S. records from 2009. | 7#10,029 | Down 6,078 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Old English-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1916. | 14#6,346 | Down 1,967 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Recorded in Old English; in U.S. records from 1938. | —Unranked | — | 1964 | ||
Old English-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1911. | —Unranked | — | 1918 | ||
Old English-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1887. | —Unranked | — | 1916 | ||
Old English-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1969. | 9#8,271 | Up 1,330 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Old English-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1912. | —Unranked | — | 1930 | ||
Recorded in Old English; in U.S. records from 1972. | 10#8,065 | new | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Old English; in U.S. records from 1909. | —Unranked | — | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Old English; in U.S. records from 1958. | —Unranked | — | 1961 | ||
Recorded in Old English; in U.S. records from 2015. | 7#9,833 | Down 146 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Recorded in Old English; in U.S. records from 2010. | 7#9,834 | new | 2021 | ||
Recorded in Old English; in U.S. records from 2012. | 5#13,801 | Down 5,111 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Old English; in U.S. records from 1914. | —Unranked | — | 1920 | ||
Recorded in Old English; in U.S. records from 1917. | —Unranked | — | 1917 | ||
Old English-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1914. | —Unranked | — | 1915 | ||
Old English-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1932. | —Unranked | — | 1932 | ||
Recorded in Old English; in U.S. records from 2016. | —Unranked | — | 2016 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.