Popular Names

144 Popular names that mean popular for boys, listing Popular baby names 1-20. Abel, Abraham, Adrian, Ahmed, Alan, Alex, Alexis, Alonzo, Alphonse, Amos, Andre, Angel and Antonio are popular names. Addison, Aidan, Alistair, Allaster, Aloysius, Alun and Aneirin are uncommon names. View Popular baby names for name meanings, search Popular names for girls, or search other baby names.

Abel ... and is popular in Spain. [8]

Abraham ... The name was popular while Abraham Lincoln was president and even after his assasination. [21]

Addison ... The English poet and essayist Joseph Addison was popular and influential through the 18th century. [6]

Adrian ... First popular in the 1950s in Britain ... [27]

Ahmed ... and popular with American Muslims ... [10]

Aidan ... Aiden is a popular modern form of the name ... [11]

Alan ... Popular in the Middle Ages ... [25]

Alex ... Often used independently as Alexander has become more and more popular ... Russian form Alek is currently very popular in that country ... [11]

Alexis ... Saint Alexis (fifth century) was a popular saint of Edessa ... [14]

Alistair ... which has long been popular in Scotland ... [8]

Allaster ... which made it popular in the 19th century.

Alonzo ... This form is more popular than Alfonso ... [12]

Aloysius ... and was by made popular by the 16th-century Italian saint Aloysius ... [14]

Alphonse ... thus very popular ... the most popular variant, is unusual ... [23]

Alun ... Alun became popular after it was used as a bardic name by John Blackwell (19th century).

Amos ... perhaps because of lingering negative connotations from the highly politically incorrect radio show "Amos 'n Andy" that was popular in the 1940s and 1950s ... [2]

Andre ... The form Andrey is popular in Russia ... [21]

Aneirin ... Nye is the pet form made popular by the statesman Aneurin Bevan (20th century). [2]

Angel ... The original Greek form Angelo is more popular now ... as Angel is usually a girl's name (although in Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel "Tess of the D'Urbervilles", a major male character is named Angel Clare.) Both forms are popular in Spanish-speaking countries ... [18]

Antonio ... This form is even more popular than Antoine ... [8]

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