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County Names for Boys

There are 11 County names for baby boys. Displayed on this page are County names 1 to 11. Kyle was the most popular among these names in 2008. The name is primarily used in English, and it was followed in popularity by the English Devon and the English and Irish Tyrone. The unusual County names are Bourey (Vietnamese), Eldon (English), Gwynedd (Welsh), Irving (English and Scottish), Kent (Scandinavian and English), Kerry (English), Labinot (Albanian), and Lyndon (English).

County names are somewhat popular baby names for boys. The names rose in popularity from the 1900s up to the 1990s; prior to that, they were of only occasional use. At the height of their usage in 1990, 1.247% of baby boys were given County names. There were 6 County names ranked within the top 1000 baby names then. County names have since experienced a decline in frequency. In 2008, 3 County names listed among the top 1000, with a combined usage of 0.302%. Within all County names, the English Kyle was the most commonly used, with a ranking of #97 and a usage of 0.2163%.

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WORD/MEANING MATCH:

Bourey county ...Bourey's meaning is 'county'. ...

DESCRIPTION MATCH:

Devon Popularity Trend of Devon
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 243 243 poet; fawn; little dark one ... from the name of the county of Devon in England; ...

Eldon Popularity Trend of Eldon
from 1900 to 2008. Ella's hill ... medieval place name in County Durham, England ...

Gwynedd from the name of a county in Wales, which is ...

Irving Popularity Trend of Irving
from 1900 to 2008. green river ... 'ir afon' in the former county of Dumfriesshire ...

Kent Popularity Trend of Kent
from 1900 to 2008. border; fair and fiery; ... from the English county of Kent; the place name ...

Kerry Popularity Trend of Kerry
from 1900 to 2008. descendants of Ciar ... the name of the Irish county of Kerry, also known as ...

Kyle Popularity Trend of Kyle
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 97 97 narrow, slender ... name so named in the county of Ayrshire in ...

Labinot in or around Elbasan County. ...

Lyndon Popularity Trend of Lyndon
from 1900 to 2008. linden, lime tree; hill, mound, dune ... name Lyndon in the county of Rutland next to ...

Tyrone Popularity Trend of Tyrone
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 654 654 land of Eoghan ... itself from the Irish county name, of the Gaelic ...


Popularity Trend
for County Names
from 1900 to 2006Variant Popularity Chart
for County Names
in 2006