Founder Names for Boys

There are 24 Founder names for baby boys. Displayed on this page are Founder names 1 to 20. Michael was the most popular among these names in 2007. The name is primarily used in Czech, English, and German, and it was followed in popularity by the Dutch, English, German, and Hebrew Abraham, the English and Scottish Graham, the English and Irish Kieran, the English Cedric, the Arabic Muhammad, the German and Russian Maxim, and the English and Hebrew name, Reuben. The unusual Founder names are Aldous (English), Benedict (English), Bonaventura (German and Italian), Camillo (Italian), Gaetano (Italian), José María (Spanish), Kemal (Turkish), Kezia (English and Hebrew), Lech (Polish), Montana (English), Norbert (German), and Romolo (Italian).

Founder names are fairly popular baby names for boys. The names rose in popularity from the 1930s up to the 1960s. At the height of their usage in 1969, 4.847% of baby boys were given Founder names. There were 8 Founder names ranked within the top 1000 baby names then. Founder names have since experienced a decline in frequency. In 2007, 11 Founder names listed among the top 1000, with a combined usage of 1.364%. Within all Founder names, the Czech, English, and German Michael was the most commonly used, with a ranking of #2 and a usage of 0.9915%.

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Abraham 192 ... father of a multitude ... is regarded as the founder of the Arabs, and the ...

Aldous ... noble, honorable; old ... an Italian printer and founder of the Aldine Press who ...

Benedict ... blessed ... Benedict (480-550), the founder of Christian monastic ...

Bonaventura ... good fortune ... as the second founder of the Franciscan order ...

Camillo ... acolyte, attendant at a ritual ... and of nurses, and the founder of the order of the ...

Cedric 590 ... pattern of generosity; ... Wessex, the legendary founder of the kingdom ...

Gaetano ... person from Caieta ... di Tiene, 1480-1547), founder of the order of the ...

Graham 383 ... gravelly place, gray ... and thus he was the founder of the clan Graham. ...

José María ... the Spanish founder of the Opus Dei. ...

Kemal ... (1881-1938), the founder of modern Turkey. ...

Kezia ... cassia, cinnamon ... of John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist ...

Kieran 571 ... little dark one, little ... of Clonmacnoise, the founder of Clonmacnoise Abbey; ...

Lech ... Slavic mythology by the founder of the Polish people; ...

Maxim 796 ... greatest ... Peshkov (1868-1936), a founder of the socialist ...

Michael 2 ... Who is like God? ... emperors and the founder of the House of Romanov ...

Montana ... mountainous; mountain ... century Saint Montanus, founder of the early Christian ...

Muhammad 702 ... praiseworthy; to praise ... Muhammad (570-632), the founder of Islam ...

Norbert ... famous Northman ... Xanten (1080-1134), the founder of the Norbertine order ...

Reuben 939 ... behold, a son ... and Leah, and thus the founder of one of the twelve ...

Romolo ... strenth ... was named after the founder ...