Borne Names for Boys

There are 488 Borne names for baby boys. Displayed on this page are Borne names 1 to 20. Alexander was the most popular among these names in 2007 with a rank of #11 and a usage of 0.8196%. The name is primarily used in Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, and Slavic, and it was followed in popularity by the English, Irish, and Scottish Aidan, the Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, Romanian, and Russian Adam, the Breton, English, German, and Scottish Alan, the English and German Alexis, the Dutch, English, German, and Hebrew Abraham, the Italian and Spanish Alfonso, the Arabic and German Ahmad, the Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, and Scandinavian Alfred, and the English, German, and Hebrew name, Amos. The unusual Borne names are Abdallah (Arabic), Achilles (German and Latinized), Adnan (Arabic), Adolf (German), Agron (Albanian), Ahab (English), Aitor (Basque and Spanish), Ajax (Latinized), Aladdin (English), and Aldous (English).

Borne names are very popular baby names for boys. At the height of their usage in 1952, 52.019% of baby boys were given Borne names. There were 163 Borne names ranked within the top 1000 baby names then. Borne names have since experienced a decline in frequency, but are nonetheless used on a very heavy scale now. In 2007, 168 Borne names listed among the top 1000, with a combined usage of 29.531%. Within all Borne names, the Dutch, English, and Scandinavian Jacob was the most commonly used, with a ranking of #1 and a usage of 1.0955%.

WORD/MEANING MATCH:

Amos 979 ... borne by God; bearer ... name Amos means 'borne by God; bearer of a ...

DESCRIPTION MATCH:

Abdallah ... servant of Allah ... name was borne by the father of the prophet ...

Abraham 192 ... father of a multitude ... name was also borne by various saints of the ...

Achilles ... pain, lipless ... name has been borne by various early saints, and ...

Adam 65 ... man; to make ... name was borne by Saint Adamnan (628-704), the ...

Adnan ... settler ... the Quran, the name was borne by a descendent of the ...

Adolf ... noble wolf ... royal family, as borne by the Swedish monarch ...

Agron ... name was borne by an llyrian king, the husband of ...

Ahab ... uncle ... name was borne by the husband of Jezebel, a king ...

Ahmad 555 ... most praiseworthy ... was borne by three 17th and 18th century Turkish ...

Aidan 54 ... little fire ... was borne by several early Irish saints, including ...

Aitor ... father; good ... name was borne by a legendary ancestor of the ...

Ajax ... mourner ... name was borne in Greek mythology by two Greek ...

Aladdin ... paragon of faith ... name was borne by a boy hero in the ancient ...

Alan 129 ... little rock; harmony, ... name was borne by a fifth century saint in ...

Aldous ... noble, honorable; old ... form Aldo was borne by Aldus Manutius (Aldo ...

Alexander 11 ... defender of men ... name was first borne by Paris the prince of Troy, ...

Alexis 158 ... defender ... name was borne by numerous saints; among them, the ...

Alfonso 519 ... noble and ready ... name was borne in the 9th century by Saint ...

Alfred 742 ... inspired advice; old ... conquest, and was borne by Alfred the Great ...