Place Names for Boys

There are 110 Place names for baby boys. Displayed on this page are Place names 1 to 20. Brandon was the most popular among these names in 2007 with a rank of #31 and a usage of 0.5487%. The name is primarily used in English, and it was followed in popularity by the English and Irish Brody, the English Ashton, Bradley, the English and Irish Braxton, the English, German, and Scottish Keith, the English Dallas, the English and Scottish Graham, the English Brent, the Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, and Scandinavian Alfred, and the English name, Brenton. The unusual Place names are Petronio (Italian), Tracy (English), Vernon (English and Irish), Alban (English and German), Arran (English and Scottish), Ashley (English), Barry (English and Irish), Blair (English and Scottish), and Branton (English).

Place names are all-time favorites. Currently they are still very popular baby names for boys, though they were in more widespread use previously. The names rose in popularity from the 1970s up to the 1990s. At the height of their usage in 1994, 5.803% of baby boys were given Place names. There were 78 Place names ranked within the top 1000 baby names then. Place names have since experienced a decline in frequency. In 2007, 58 Place names listed among the top 1000, with a combined usage of 5.387%. Within all Place names, the English and Scottish Logan was the most commonly used, with a ranking of #17 and a usage of 0.6943%.

WORD/MEANING MATCH:

Brody 105 ... ditch, muddy place ... meaning ditch, muddy place ... is itself from various place names possibly ...

Dallas 340 ... meadow dwelling, resting ... dwelling, resting place ... itself from a Scottish place name of the elements ...

Graham 383 ... gravelly place, gray ... the meaning gravelly place, gray house ...

Keith 298 ... forest, windy place ... meaning forest, windy place ... itself from a Scottish place name which means ...

Petronio ... from a rocky place; ... meaning is from a rocky place; bumpkin ...

Tracy ... place of Thracius ...Tracy's meaning is place of Thracius ...

Vernon ... place of alders, alder ...Vernon's meaning is place of alders, alder grove ...

DESCRIPTION MATCH:

Alban ... man from Alba; the Albanian ... to the ethnic name of a place in ancient Rome called ...

Alfred 742 ... inspired advice; old ... which had a 'v' in place of an 'f' ...

Arran ... peaked island, arched ... trend of using Scottish place names for given names ...

Ashley ... ash wood ... someone who lived in a place so named, such as an ...

Ashton 124 ... ash tree town ... which is itself from a place name. ...

Barry ... fair headed; spear; ... it could be from the place name of Barry Island, ...

Blair ... plain, field, battlefield ... surname, itself from a place name with the Gaelic ...

Bradley 194 ... broad clearing ... place name has been taken up as a surname and ...

Brandon 31 ... broom hill, hill covered ... local name from several place names associated with ...

Branton ... broom town, town covered ... derived from an English place name so called in areas ...

Braxton 216 ... Bracca's town, Brock's ... which is itself from a place name meaning 'Bracca's ...

Brent 509 ... hill ... is itself from various place names in Devon, ...

Brenton 993 ... Bryni's town; hill ... which is itself from a place name 'Bryni's town' in ...