Prominent Names for Boys

There are 21 Prominent names for baby boys. Displayed on this page are Prominent names 1 to 20. Samuel was the most popular among these names in 2007. The name is primarily used in English, French, and German, and it was followed in popularity by the English, German, Polish, Romanian, and Russian Adrian, the English Hayden, the English and Polish Edward, the English and Scottish Douglas, the English Brent, Clinton, the German and Russian Maxim, the English and Scottish Ross, and the English name, Broderick. The unusual Prominent names are Bonaventura (German and Italian), Boniface (English and French), Cathal (Irish), Cian (English and Irish), Clifford (English), Cyril (Czech, English, German, and Slavic), Galen (English), Herbert (English, French, and German), Leslie (English and German), and Manlio (Italian).

Prominent names are popular baby names for boys. At the height of their usage in 1918, 3.616% of baby boys were given Prominent names. There were 12 Prominent names ranked within the top 1000 baby names then. Prominent names have since experienced a decline in frequency, and in recent years they are of moderate use. In 2007, 11 Prominent names listed among the top 1000, with a combined usage of 1.572%, having regained their popularity somewhat in the recent decade. Within all Prominent names, the English, French, and German Samuel was the most commonly used, with a ranking of #25 and a usage of 0.6003%.

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Adrian 61 ... man from Hadria; dark ... association with a prominent Roman officer who ...

Bonaventura ... good fortune ... (1221-1274), a prominent monk considered as the ...

Boniface ... good fate, well-doer, ... of the Germans, was a prominent missionary in Germany ...

Brent 509 ... hill ... ground or named for the prominent hills in their ...

Broderick 874 ... broad ridge ... place names with prominent ridges in its vicinity ...

Cathal ... battle-mighty ... and descendants of the prominent Clan Macpherson (Gaelic ...

Cian ... ancient one ... and by the ancient and prominent Clan Cian otherwise ...

Clifford ... ford by a cliff ... was well known from a prominent aristocratic family ...

Clinton 755 ... settlement by the River ... in honor of the prominent Clinton family, which ...

Cyril ... of the lord ... (378-444) were prominent theologians and Doctors ...

Douglas 396 ... dark river, blood river ... given name is from a prominent Scottish family name, ...

Edward 145 ... guardian of riches ... Conquest, but the most prominent was King Edward the ...

Galen ... calm ... Galen of Pergamum, a prominent Greek physician whose ...

Hayden 71 ... heathen ... one of the most prominent composers of the ...

Herbert ... army, warrior; bright, ... earls of Pembroke, a prominent family in the 16th and ...

Leslie ... garden of hollies ... of the prominent Scottish earldom family were ...

Manlio ... morning; good ... which was borne by a prominent patrician family from ...

Maxim 796 ... greatest ... Confessor (580-662), a prominent theologian and writer ...

Ross 828 ... promontory, cape, peninsula, ... to derive from the prominent Scottish surname, ...

Samuel 25 ... God has heard; asked ... in the Bible by the prominent 11th century BC judge ...