Girl · English surname, from Old French
Surname for a bailiff or steward; sometimes for someone living by a castle's outer wall Well attested
US 2025: #209 (girls) · England and Wales 2025: #705
Also spelled: Bailee, Baylee, Baily, Bayley
Baby names from old trades
English baby names grouped by what they mean, as name dictionaries and word-origin sources give it. Bazi8 is a site about BaZi, the Chinese reading of a birth date, and Chinese names; where a Chinese character shares a name's meaning, the card shows it. This meaning isn't tied to one of the five elements, so nothing here depends on a baby's chart.
Girls' names
Girl · English surname
An occupational surname for a harp player, from Middle English harpere Well attested
US 2025: #16 (girls) · England and Wales 2025: #23
Girl · English surname
Surname for someone who played the pipes Well attested
US 2025: #155 (girls) · England and Wales 2025: #212
Girl · English surname, from Old French
A surname for a dancer or acrobat, from Old French sailleor Likely
Often taken to mean 'sailor'; the surname comes from the word for a dancer.
US 2025: #217 (girls) · England and Wales 2025: #2138
Also spelled: Sayler
Boys' names
Boy · English surname, from French
Surname for a bowman, from Old French archier, from Latin arcus 'bow' Well attested
US 2025: #98 (boys) · England and Wales 2025: #152
Boy · English surname
A baker: a surname for someone who baked bread or ran an oven Well attested
US 2025: #217 (boys) · England and Wales 2025: #2952
Boy · English surname; in Ireland, from Irish
A cart driver: an English trade surname; also Irish Mac Artúir, 'son of Arthur' Well attested
US 2025: #45 (boys) · England and Wales 2025: #97
Also spelled: Karter
Boy · English surname
An English trade surname, a variant of Case; not known to come from the word for money Likely
The word for money comes from French caisse, 'money box'; the references treat the surname separately.
US 2025: #287 (boys) · England and Wales 2025: #2014
Also spelled: Kash
Boy · English surname, from Old French
A surname for a hunter, from Middle English chase, 'hunt' Likely
US 2025: #192 (boys) · England and Wales 2025: #517
Also spelled: Chayce
Boy · English surname
Northern English surname: a keeper of asses and horses, from 'colt' Likely
'Colter' is also a US spelling of 'coulter', a plow blade, but the surname dictionary doesn't link them.
US 2025: #157 (boys) · England and Wales 2025: #1466
Boy · English surname
English trade surname: a maker and repairer of wooden barrels and casks Well attested
US 2025: #27 (boys) · England and Wales 2025: #105
Boy · English surname
'Son of a steward', from Middle English greyve, 'steward' Well attested
Often read as 'son of a gray-haired man'; the surname dictionaries give 'steward'.
US 2025: #51 (boys) · England and Wales 2025: #104
Also spelled: Greyson
Boy · English and Scottish surname
The word hunter: an occupational surname Well attested
US 2025: #130 (boys) · England and Wales 2025: #91
Boy · English surname, from Old French
A surname for a stonemason, from Old French masson Well attested
US 2025: #39 (boys) · England and Wales 2025: #77
Boy · English surname
Surname mainly for a rider, a mounted warrior or messenger Well attested
US 2025: #133 (boys) · England and Wales 2025: #478
Also spelled: Rider
Boy · English word and surname
Someone who tends sheep; an English word and surname Well attested
US 2025: #246 (boys) · England and Wales 2025: #3684
Also spelled: Shepard, Sheppard
Boy · English surname
A surname for a fuller, someone who cleaned and thickened woven cloth Likely
US 2025: #181 (boys) · England and Wales 2025: #1798
Boy · English surname
A surname for a tiler, someone who made or laid tiles Likely
US 2025: #220 (boys) · England and Wales 2025: #265
Also spelled: Tylor
Boy · English surname
A surname for a fuller, who trod wet cloth to thicken it Well attested
The name is often read as 'one who walks'; the references tie it to this trade.
US 2025: #78 (boys) · England and Wales 2025: #2440
Names for either
Either · English surname
Surname for a park keeper or gamekeeper Well attested
US 2025: #106 (girls), #102 (boys) · England and Wales 2025: #1454 (girls), #175 (boys)
Either · French, from Latin
French form of Latin Remigius, from remex, 'oarsman' Well attested
US 2025: #145 (girls), #787 (boys) · England and Wales 2025: #172 (girls), #183 (boys)
Also spelled: Remy
Either · English surname
A surname for someone who sawed timber, from the word sawyer Well attested
US 2025: #291 (girls), #122 (boys) · England and Wales 2025: #4201 (girls), #1613 (boys)
Popularity: US Social Security Administration 2025; Office for National Statistics 2025, England and Wales. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.