A good friend of mine is pregnant and it’s reminding me how thrilling it was to call our personal children. We love conventional names (aka: old style names, aka basic names) and each of our kids are named after our grandparents – one on John’s facet and one on my facet. So I had enjoyable placing collectively this listing of my favourite 100 basic boy names. They really feel established, like they stand the take a look at of time, and might carry particular which means in the event that they’re already names in your loved ones. ALSO IS THERE ANYTHING CUTER THAN BABY SUSPENDERS?!?
One attention-grabbing factor I discovered once I was penning this publish was that most of the prime ten hottest names for boys in 2024 are arguably fairly basic:
- #1: Liam
- #2: Noah
- #3: Oliver
- #4: James
- #5: Elijah
- #6: Mateo
- #7: Theodore
- #8: Henry
- #9: Lucas
- #10: William
However past that brief listing of the preferred boy names this yr, there are such a lot of different basic boy names to select from. So right here is my big listing of round 100 conventional/old style boy names:
- Adrian
- Alec
- Archie
- Arlo
- Arthur
- August (Gus)
- Baxter
- Benjamin (Ben or Benji)
- Bennett
- Beau
- Carl
- Cedric
- Charles
- Christopher (Chris)
- Clark
- Conrad
- Dean
- Dexter
- Edward (Eddie)
- Felix
- Finn
- Flynn
- Ford (Clifford)
- Francis
- Franklin (Frankie)
- Freddie
- George
- Gideon
- Glenn
- Graham
- Grant
- Hank
- Harry
- Harvey
- Henry
- Hugh
- Hugo
- Isaac
- Jack
- Jackson
- Jacob
- James
- Jason
- Jasper
- Jensen
- John
- Joseph (Joey)
- Joshua
- Jude
- Jullian
- Kennedy
- Kenneth
- Kent
- Lawrence
- Leonard
- Lewis
- Lincoln
- Linus
- Lucas
- Lyle
- Matthew
- Maximillian (Max)
- Miles
- Milo
- Neil
- Nolan
- Oliver (Ollie)
- Oscar
- Otto
- Paul
- Perry
- Pierce
- Preston
- Quincy
- Quentin
- Robert
- Ross
- Russell
- Samuel (Sam or Sammy)
- Sebastian
- Simon
- Sinclair
- Steven / Stephen
- Theodore (Teddy)
- Thomas (Tom)
- Tobias
- Tristan
- Truman
- Vincent
- Walt
- Wallace
- Warren
- William (Will)
- Zachary
So there you have got it. 100 or so basic boy names that really feel time-honored and conventional. I like all of them. All the time pleased to call your child. Name me 😉
