General Names

46 General names that mean general for boys, listing General baby names 1-20. Ambrose, Anthony, Arthur, Bradley, Cletus, Curtis, Douglas, Edwin, Elliot, Erwin and Forest are popular names. Amid, Aristides, Beauregard, Clitus, Cornwallis, Dag, Early, Eustace and Gage are uncommon names. View General baby names for name meanings, search General names for girls, or search other baby names.

Ambrose ... Civil War General Ambrose E. Burnside. [17]

Amid ... "General."

Anthony ... Roman triumvir and general ... [32]

Aristides ... Aristides was a famous general and statesman during the Golden Age of Athens. [3]

Arthur ... Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" (19th century) and the Victorian romanticism of things medieval in general and of Arthurian legend in particular promoted its use ... [17]

Beauregard ... Dennis took this name from the names of three prominent Confederate generals ... [1]

Bradley ... The most famous American with this surname was General Omar N ... [9]

Cletus ... From Kleitos, the name of one of Alexander the Great's generals ... [9]

Clitus ... the name of one of Alexander the Great's generals ...

Cornwallis ... Famous English general in the revolutionary War George Cornwallis lost the battle of Yorktown to Washington and Lafayette ...

Curtis ... General Curtis Le May ... [6]

Dag ... Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize winner Dag Hammarskjöld. [4]

Douglas ... General Douglas MacArthur. [3]

Early ... Confederate General Jubal Early. [4]

Edwin ... Attorney General Edwin Meese III. [10]

Elliot ... Attorney General Elliot Richardson. [6]

Erwin ... General Erwin Rommel. [2]

Eustace ... Saint Eustace (second century) was a Roman general who was converted and martyred ... [11]

Forest ... The character Forrest in Winston Groom's novel and the popular film "Forrest Gump" is named for hard-charging Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest (and early member of the Ku Klux Klan) ... [5]

Gage ... The British General Thomas Gage was Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. [1]

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