General Names for Boys

There are 25 General names for baby boys. Displayed on this page are General names 1 to 20. Jackson was the most popular among these names in 2007. The name is primarily used in English, and it was followed in popularity by the English, French, German, and Irish Patrick, the English and Scottish Grant, the English Bradley, the English and Scottish Scott, the English Lee, and the English and Scottish name, Gordon. The unusual General names are Attilio (Italian), Cassius (English), Clive (English), Clyde (English and Scottish), Dermot (English), Dwight (English), Egmont (Dutch, French, and German), Forrest (English), Holger (German and Scandinavian), Javan (English), Leslie (English and German), Lysander (German), and Otto (English, French, German, and Italian).

General names are fairly popular baby names for boys. At the height of their usage in 1969, 3.372% of baby boys were given General names. There were 16 General names ranked within the top 1000 baby names then. General names have since experienced a decline in frequency, and in recent years they are of moderate use. In 2007, 10 General names listed among the top 1000, with a combined usage of 1.123%. Within all General names, the English Jackson was the most commonly used, with a ranking of #33 and a usage of 0.5282%.

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Attilio ... (250BC), the Roman general who fought in the First ...

Bradley 194 ... broad clearing ... in honor of the US General Omar Nelson Bradley ...

Cassius ... empty, vain ... was borne by the Roman general Gaius Cassius Longinus ...

Clive ... cliff, riverbank, slope ... in honor of Major-general Robert Clive ... named after the British general. ...

Clyde ... washer ... gained ground among the general population by the end ...

Dermot ... free from envy, free ... been adopted by the general English speaker, ...

Dwight ... of the World War II general and US president Dwight ...

Egmont ... edge; protection, protector ... based on the Flemish general Lamoraal Graaf van ...

Forrest ... forest ... a lieutenant general in the Confederate ...

Gordon 989 ... great hill ...

Grant 161 ... great ... (1822-1885), who was a general in the Civil War ...

Holger ... island; spear ... the Dane, who was a general of the emperor ...

Jackson 33 ... son of Jack ... and the Confederate general Thomas Jonathan ...

Javan ... Greece ... for Greece or Greeks in general ...

Lee 642 ... meadow; ash wood; broad ... from the Confederate general Robert E ...

Leslie ... garden of hollies ... was however a general in the English and ...

Lysander ... release, loosening; ... was borne by a Spartan general (-395 BC), who fought ...

Otto ... wealth, fortune ... name for Germans in general. ...

Patrick 116 ... nobleman ... for Irish persons in general. ...

Scott 277 ... Scotsman, Scottish ... since been used by the general English speaker, ...