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Northern Names for Boys

There are 16 Northern names for baby boys. Displayed on this page are Northern names 1 to 16. Benjamin was the most popular among these names in 2008. The name is primarily used in English, French, and German, and it was followed in popularity by the English, French, German, Scandinavian, and Scottish Robert, the English, German, Polish, Romanian, and Russian Adrian, the English, Irish, and Scottish Carson, the English and Irish Shane, the English and Scottish Ronald, and lastly the English and Scottish name, Bruce. The unusual Northern names are Britto (English), Seymour (English), Adnan (Arabic), Darcy (English), Kalen (English and German), Kerr (English and Scottish), Sinclair (English), Tadhg (Irish and Scottish), and Theodoric (English).

Northern names are popular baby names for boys. At the height of their usage in 1937, 7.744% of baby boys were given Northern names. There were 7 Northern names ranked within the top 1000 baby names then. Northern names have since experienced a decline in frequency, but are nonetheless used on a heavy scale now. In 2008, 7 Northern names listed among the top 1000, with a combined usage of 1.780%. Within all Northern names, the English, French, and German Benjamin was the most commonly used, with a ranking of #25 and a usage of 0.593%.

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WORD/MEANING MATCH:

Britto one from Brittany, in northern France ... 'one from Brittany, in northern France'. ...

Seymour Popularity Trend of Seymour
from 1900 to 2008. an estate in northern ... is 'an estate in northern France'. ...

DESCRIPTION MATCH:

Adnan settler ... who settled in the northern region of the Arab ...

Adrian Popularity Trend of Adrian
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 56 56 man from Hadria; dark ... is a town in northern Italy named after the ...

Benjamin Popularity Trend of Benjamin
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 25 25 son of the south, son ... Canaan instead of the northern Mesopotamia, or else it ...

Bruce Popularity Trend of Bruce
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 476 476 the name of a place in northern France which could have ...

Carson Popularity Trend of Carson
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 89 89 rock, coastal rocks; ... Northern Ireland, the name is sometimes given in ...

Darcy Popularity Trend of Darcy
from 1900 to 2008. from Arcy ... the town of Arcy in northern France and attacked ...

Kalen Popularity Trend of Kalen
from 1900 to 2008. thin, slender ... called in Mecklenburg, northern Germany. ...

Kerr marsh land, land with ... surname, originally a northern English byname given to ...

Robert Popularity Trend of Robert
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 49 49 bright famous one; famously famous ... was popular in medieval Northern France, and it was ...

Ronald Popularity Trend of Ronald
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 308 308 well-advised ruler ... in Scotland and northern England where it was ...

Shane Popularity Trend of Shane
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 174 174 Yahweh is gracious, ... Seán, representing a Northern Irish pronunciation of ...

Sinclair clear pool, clear well ... French Saint-Clair in northern France where the family ...

Tadhg poet, philosopher ... used by Protestants in Northern Ireland as mildy ...

Theodoric ruler of the people ... who also ruled over northern Italy ...


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