Male Regency Name Generator

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Men's names for Regency England, 1811 to 1820, from plain gentlemen such as Peregrine Oglander and Septimus Aldridge to Sir Ambrose Gascoyne, Colonel Greville Rawdon and The Earl of Beckhampton. Every entry is male, with the ranks and titles a gentleman, an officer or a peer would carry.

About male Regency names

The Regency proper ran from 1811 to 1820, when the Prince of Wales ruled as Regent for George III. A boy was christened from a short stock of names: John, William, Thomas, George, Henry, Charles, Edward and James fill the parish registers. Families added distinction with a second name, often the mother's maiden surname or a godfather's, which is how given names such as Greville, Wyndham, Courtenay and Spencer came about. Augustus, Horatio, Peregrine and Marmaduke marked the fashionable end.

How a man was addressed mattered as much as his name. A baronet or knight is Sir with the given name, so Sir Ambrose Gascoyne is Sir Ambrose and never Sir Gascoyne. A peer goes by his title, not his surname: The Earl of Beckhampton is Lord Beckhampton, and only a duke is never Lord anything. Younger sons of dukes and marquesses put Lord before the given name, as in Lord Julian Netherby. Younger sons of earls and all sons of viscounts and barons are The Hon., on paper only.

Officers went by rank. Army commissions were usually bought, so a boy of family could be a cornet or ensign at sixteen, while the navy made him serve as a midshipman first. The list also has clergy, physicians, squires, servants and Scottish, Irish and Welsh gentry.

How to choose male Regency names

  • Match the form to the scene. A narrator can write Sir Gervase Hobart, Bart. in full once; after that the drawing room says Sir Gervase and his old school friends say Hobart.
  • Give a peer both of his names. Francis Bamford, Earl of Elmsworth signs himself Elmsworth and is Lord Elmsworth to society, while a younger son is The Hon. Theodore Bamford on an envelope and plain Mr. Bamford in a ballroom.
  • Age an officer by his rank. A cornet, an ensign or a midshipman is a boy in his teens, a captain is usually in his twenties or thirties, and a general or an admiral has decades of service behind him.
  • Use the second name for backstory. In John Pelham Onslow the middle name is a surname, which in this period usually points to the mother's family or to a godfather with money to leave.
  • Keep the social ladder in view. Short biblical names such as Enoch Sowerby or Jabez Ackroyd suit a groom, a gamekeeper or a chapel-going tradesman, and would sound wrong on a marquess.

Frequently asked questions

What were common boy names in the Regency era?

A handful of names did most of the work: John, William, Thomas, George, Henry, Charles, Edward and James, with Frederick and Augustus made fashionable by the royal family. The list pairs them with rarer period choices, as in Peregrine Charles, Horatio James and Octavius Henry. Names that took off later in the century, such as Albert, Stanley or Clarence, would date a story set in the 1810s.

Is it Sir Ambrose or Sir Gascoyne?

Sir always goes with the given name, so Sir Ambrose Gascoyne is Sir Ambrose to everyone who addresses him, and his wife is Lady Gascoyne. The same holds for a knighted officer such as General Sir Eustace Pelham, who is Sir Eustace. A peer works the other way round: he is known by his title, so Viscount Kettlewell is Lord Kettlewell and his surname is rarely heard.

What is the difference between Lord Julian Netherby and Lord Rushden?

Lord Rushden is a peer, a man who holds a title in his own right and has a seat in the House of Lords. Lord Julian Netherby is the younger son of a duke or a marquess, and the Lord in front of his given name is a courtesy that he cannot pass on to his children. He is Lord Julian in speech and never Lord Netherby.

Are these the names of real people or of characters from the novels?

That is not the intent. The list was drafted from period given names, real English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh surnames and invented titles, and it aims to leave out historical figures and the characters of the famous novels and the television series. With old surnames a match with some real man of the time is always possible, so search a name before you put it in print.

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A: 24 names

  • Abel Threlfall
  • Adam Lockhart
  • Admiral Leopold Evelyn
  • Admiral Sir Hector Dacre
  • Adolphus Wrottesley
  • Alexander Fotheringham, Lord Thirlmere
  • Algernon Heneage
  • Algernon Thomas
  • Ambrose Fanshawe
  • Ambrose George
  • Amos Capstick
  • Andrew Moncreiffe

A, continued

  • Angus Farquharson of Glenarroch
  • Anthony Burnaby
  • Anthony Dawnay, Viscount Painswick
  • Archdeacon Theodore Strode
  • Archibald Dymoke
  • Archibald Wedderburn
  • Arthur Buckworth, Earl of Halstead
  • Arthur Paulet Strode
  • Aubrey Stourton
  • Augustus Bellamy, Duke of Trevenning
  • Augustus Coventry Pole
  • Augustus Fermor

B: 9 names

  • Barnabas Tapp
  • Barnaby Frobisher
  • Barnaby Ralph
  • Bartholomew Boothby of Beaumere Abbey
  • Bartholomew Gresham
  • Basil Wandesford
  • Ben Wagstaff
  • Bernard Oxenden
  • Bob Catchpole

C: 64 names

  • Caleb Jessop
  • Canon Philip Swinburne
  • Captain Alexander Bolton of the Royal Artillery
  • Captain Arthur Bosanquet
  • Captain Charles Brabazon of the Foot Guards
  • Captain Edward Bradshaw
  • Captain George Brandreth of the Rifles
  • Captain Lionel Bridgeman
  • Captain Nicholas Aske
  • Captain Oliver Atherton
  • Captain Oswald Hanbury, R.N.
  • Captain Reginald Harcourt, R.N.

C, continued

  • Captain Roland Jermyn, R.N.
  • Captain Rupert Killigrew, R.N.
  • Captain Samuel Baskerville
  • Captain Sebastian Lambton, R.N.
  • Captain Simon Barrington
  • Captain Stephen Beresford of the Life Guards
  • Captain Sylvester Langham, R.N.
  • Captain Theodore Lennard, R.N.
  • Captain Theophilus Lisle, R.N.
  • Captain Timothy Berkeley
  • Captain Tobias Lowther, R.N.
  • Captain Valentine Mallory, R.N.
  • Captain Zachary Blount

C, continued

  • Charles Dacre Fortescue
  • Charles Ravenscroft, Duke of Wolverley
  • Charley Methuen
  • Christopher Culpeper, Viscount Otterbourne
  • Clement Gilbert
  • Clement Trevanion
  • Colin Abercromby
  • Colonel Augustus Trevelyan
  • Colonel Courtenay Swinburne
  • Colonel Denzil Talbot
  • Colonel Greville Rawdon
  • Colonel Neville Tremayne
  • Colonel Piers Thornhill

C, continued

  • Colonel Quentin Townshend
  • Colonel Wyndham Sutton
  • Commander Adolphus Markham
  • Commander Algernon Maynard
  • Commander Archibald Methuen
  • Commander Aubrey Molyneux
  • Commander Barnard Mordaunt
  • Commander Basil Monckton
  • Commander Eustace Noel
  • Commander Vincent Mansel
  • Commodore Miles Fleetwood
  • Commodore Montague Gower
  • Commodore Nathaniel Hales

C, continued

  • Cornelius Bowes of Marston Grange
  • Cornelius Hartopp
  • Cornelius O'Hara
  • Cornet Dick Curzon
  • Cornet Jack Coventry
  • Cornet Kit Colclough
  • Cornet Tom Corbet
  • Courtenay Rashleigh
  • Crispin Aylmer
  • Crispin Bagot of Langbourne Park
  • Crispin Walter
  • Cuthbert Giles
  • Cuthbert Ingilby

D: 17 names

  • Daniel MacNamara
  • David Oliphant
  • Dean Walter Stukeley
  • Denis Blennerhassett
  • Denzil Holroyd
  • Dermot Lynch
  • Dick Noakes
  • Dick Peachey

D, continued

  • Dr. Benjamin Somerville
  • Dr. Elias Shirley
  • Dr. Erasmus Fawcett
  • Dr. Jonathan Skipwith
  • Dr. Luke Strickland
  • Dr. Matthias Seymour
  • Dr. Tobias Stapleton
  • Dugald Carnegie
  • Duncan Macalister of Kinlochbeg

E: 20 names

  • Edmund Chalmers, Earl of Harcombe
  • Edmund Isham Langham
  • Edmund Yelverton
  • Edward Carstairs, Duke of Lydford
  • Edward Sandys Lennard
  • Eli Pettigrew
  • Enoch Sowerby
  • Ensign Frank Chudleigh
  • Ensign Harry Cholmondeley
  • Ensign Ned Colborne

E, continued

  • Ensign Thomas Cavanagh
  • Ensign William Chichester
  • Ephraim Grimshaw
  • Evan Glynne
  • Evelyn Monckton
  • Everard Foljambe
  • Everard William
  • Everard Wrey of Lowick Grange
  • Ewen Maclachlan of Strathlyon
  • Ezra Bagshaw

F: 12 names

  • Felix Anthony
  • Felix Brudenell of Vinehall House
  • Felix Wingfield
  • Ferdinand Oliver
  • Ferdinand Strickland
  • Francis Bamford, Earl of Elmsworth
  • Francis Corbet Wolseley
  • Francis Widdrington
  • Frank Windham
  • Fred Portman
  • Frederick Allardyce, Duke of Thornbury
  • Frederick Yorke Ramsden

G: 24 names

  • Gabriel Burdett of Dunsfold Hall
  • Gabriel Oakes
  • Gabriel Simon
  • Garrett Nugent
  • General Sir Eustace Pelham
  • George Netherby, Marquess of Askrigg
  • George Noel Fawcett
  • Gervase Richard
  • Gervase Thorold
  • Gideon Massingberd
  • Gideon Samuel
  • Gil Sacheverell

G, continued

  • Gilbert Copley, Viscount Middleham
  • Gilbert Hanbury
  • Giles Cobham, Earl of Hexworthy
  • Giles Scrope
  • Godfrey Arundell Mansel
  • Godfrey Robert
  • Godfrey Tyrwhitt
  • Godfrey Wingfield of Kingsmead Park
  • Gregory Cotterell
  • Gregory Dunstable, Viscount Pendleton
  • Greville Mordaunt
  • Griffith Mostyn

H: 16 names

  • Hal Wortley
  • Harry Burdett
  • Hector Calthorpe of Tiverley Court
  • Hector Delaval
  • Hector Urquhart of Balnacraig
  • Henry Brockhurst, Duke of Branscombe
  • Henry Lisle Tempest
  • Hew Dalziel

H, continued

  • Horatio James
  • Horatio Peverell
  • Horatio Wolseley of Ashlington Abbey
  • Hugh Bickerstaff, Earl of Embleton
  • Hugh Danvers Rolle
  • Hugh Tremayne of Penrose Court
  • Humphrey Arundell of Pengarrow Castle
  • Humphrey Skipwith

J: 16 names

  • Jabez Ackroyd
  • Jack Markham
  • James Blackwood, Earl of Fairleigh
  • James Mallory Selwyn
  • Jasper Blakeney
  • Jasper Philip
  • Jem Hollis
  • Jethro Mudge

J, continued

  • Job Appleyard
  • Joe Huckle
  • John Bramwell, Earl of Farnley
  • John Pelham Onslow
  • Josiah Kerrison
  • Julian Champneys of Cresswell Abbey
  • Julian Clavering
  • Julian Stephen

K: 2 names

  • Kenneth Ogilvy of Drumlochy
  • Kit Molyneux

L: 51 names

  • Lachlan Mackinnon of Ardnamore
  • Lancelot Edmund
  • Lancelot Hesketh
  • Laurence Matthew
  • Laurence Tufton
  • Leopold Alexander
  • Leopold Cheyne of Netherton Grange
  • Leopold Savile
  • Lieutenant Courtenay Peachey, R.N.
  • Lieutenant Greville Palgrave, R.N.
  • Lieutenant James Burgoyne
  • Lieutenant John Calverley of the Light Dragoons

L, continued

  • Lieutenant Piers Pennington, R.N.
  • Lieutenant Richard Cathcart of the Hussars
  • Lieutenant Robert Carew
  • Lieutenant Rowland Norreys, R.N.
  • Lieutenant Sidney Oxenden, R.N.
  • Lieutenant Spencer Oglander, R.N.
  • Lieutenant Titus Pakenham, R.N.
  • Lieutenant Wyndham Paulet, R.N.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Vyvyan
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Vane
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Waldegrave
  • Lieutenant-General Spencer Onslow
  • Lionel Arthur

L, continued

  • Lionel Carlyon
  • Lionel Jermyn Southcote
  • Llewelyn Puleston
  • Lord Julian Netherby
  • Lord Laurence Daventry
  • Lord Leopold Enderby
  • Lord Lucius Halliday
  • Lord Maurice Ravenscroft
  • Lord Miles Allardyce
  • Lord Montague Brockhurst
  • Lord Nathaniel Bellamy
  • Lord Oswald Carstairs
  • Lord Roland Daventry

L, continued

  • Lord Rupert Enderby
  • Lord Rushden
  • Lord Sebastian Halliday
  • Lord Sedbergh
  • Lord Shalford
  • Lord Sherston
  • Lord Skelton
  • Lord Sylvester Ravenscroft
  • Lucius Bracebridge
  • Lucius Clavering of Selwood Priory
  • Lucius Edward
  • Lucius Taaffe
  • Luke Varley

M: 53 names

  • Major Anthony Anstruther of the Foot Guards
  • Major Christopher Ainsworth
  • Major Gilbert Wrey
  • Major Giles Warburton
  • Major Gregory Appleby
  • Major Hugh Wortley
  • Major Josiah Ashby
  • Major Matthew Ashton of the Light Dragoons
  • Major Percival Yorke
  • Major Ralph Whitmore of the Rifles
  • Major Walter Wharton
  • Major-General Rowland Orde
  • Major-General Titus Mostyn

M, continued

  • Malcolm Menzies of Auchenbrae
  • Marmaduke Ellison
  • Marmaduke Francis
  • Matthew Lawley
  • Maurice Nicholas
  • Maurice Twysden
  • Midshipman Harry Penrose
  • Midshipman Kit Peyton
  • Midshipman Ned Peverell
  • Midshipman Tom Pickering
  • Midshipman Will Popham
  • Miles Christopher
  • Miles Conyers

M, continued

  • Miles Cotterell of Elmstead Hall
  • Montague Cranfield of Northaw Park
  • Montague Reresby
  • Montague Roger
  • Morgan Philipps
  • Moses Figgins
  • Mr. Ambrose Yelverton of Aldermere Hall
  • Mr. Barnaby Blakeney of Saxonbury Court
  • Mr. Clement Bracebridge of Ravensmoor Priory
  • Mr. Cornelius Tyrwhitt, Barrister
  • Mr. Cuthbert Boscawen of Fernhurst Manor
  • Mr. Ferdinand Bulstrode of Abbotswood Place
  • Mr. Gervase Wrottesley of Quenby Priory

M, continued

  • Mr. Gideon Burnaby of Merrowdown Park
  • Mr. Jasper Babington of Cawthorne Hall
  • Mr. Jeremiah Tufton, Solicitor
  • Mr. Justice Thornhill
  • Mr. Lancelot Yorke of Yardley Place
  • Mr. Laurence Chetwode of Glenfield Manor
  • Mr. Lionel Winnington of Rushbrook Court
  • Mr. Marmaduke Wortley of Edgcott Manor
  • Mr. Maurice Coningsby of Wyndcliffe House
  • Mr. Nathaniel Trafford, Attorney
  • Mr. Oswald Dering of Dalehurst Abbey
  • Mr. Peregrine Wilbraham of Brackenfield Hall
  • Mr. Rupert Ellison of Foxcote Hall
  • Mr. Serjeant Twysden

N: 13 names

  • Nat Gribble
  • Nat Swinburne
  • Nathaniel Boothby
  • Nathaniel Delaval of Upcott Court
  • Nathaniel Timothy
  • Ned Stapleton
  • Ned Tully
  • Neil Balfour
  • Neville Champneys
  • Nicholas Edgcumbe, Viscount Petworth
  • Nicholas Trafford
  • Ninian Dunbar
  • Noah Tibbs

O: 7 names

  • Obadiah Scroggs
  • Octavius Henry
  • Oliver Bagot
  • Oliver Egerton, Viscount Ramsbury
  • Oswald Gregory
  • Oswald Shuckburgh
  • Owen Salusbury

P: 11 names

  • Patrick Kinloch
  • Percival Crewe, Viscount Northleach
  • Percival Stukeley
  • Peregrine Charles
  • Peregrine Oglander
  • Perry Norreys
  • Philip Blount Maynard
  • Philip Enderby, Marquess of Saltash
  • Philip Winnington
  • Piers Radclyffe
  • Pryce Gwynne

Q: 1 name

  • Quentin Eardley

R: 26 names

  • Ralph Clopton, Earl of Hawkshead
  • Ralph Uvedale
  • Ranald Macdougall of Inverallan
  • Randolph Dormer of Holmwood Manor
  • Randolph Lowther
  • Rear-Admiral Laurence Drummond
  • Rear-Admiral Lucius Fenwick
  • Redmond Plunkett
  • Reginald Coningsby
  • Reginald Dymoke of Orchardleigh Grange
  • Reuben Stubbs
  • Rhys Vaughan
  • Richard Bromley, Earl of Frensham

R, continued

  • Richard Grimston
  • Richard Verney Palgrave
  • Robert Halliday, Marquess of Winchcombe
  • Robert Langham Hales
  • Robin Whitmore
  • Roderick Pringle
  • Roger Cheyne
  • Roger Erskine, Viscount Ravenglass
  • Roland Eardley of Thurlestone Priory
  • Roland Whichcote
  • Rowland Vavasour
  • Rupert Percival
  • Rupert Tollemache

S: 43 names

  • Sam Crabtree
  • Samuel Fullerton, Lord Tisbury
  • Samuel Honywood
  • Sebastian Elwes of Oakhanger Park
  • Sebastian Josiah
  • Septimus Aldridge
  • Septimus John
  • Seth Whipple
  • Sidney Jervoise
  • Simon Farquhar, Lord Staveley
  • Simon Fortescue
  • Sir Ambrose Gascoyne
  • Sir Barnaby Lascelles, Bart.
  • Sir Bartholomew Latimer

S, continued

  • Sir Clement Luttrell
  • Sir Crispin Langdale
  • Sir Cuthbert Leveson, Bart.
  • Sir Everard Heathcote
  • Sir Felix Lyttelton, Bart.
  • Sir Ferdinand Manners
  • Sir Gabriel Meredith, Bart.
  • Sir Gervase Hobart, Bart.
  • Sir Gideon Mildmay
  • Sir Godfrey Grantley
  • Sir Hector Moreton, Bart.
  • Sir Horatio Hardcastle
  • Sir Humphrey Kenyon
  • Sir Jasper Lacy, Bart.

S, continued

  • Sir Lancelot Jocelyn, Bart.
  • Sir Lionel Grenfell, Bart.
  • Sir Marmaduke Harington, Bart.
  • Sir Peregrine Goring, Bart.
  • Sir Tristram Ingram
  • Spencer Killigrew
  • Squire Giles Wharton
  • Squire Hugh Verney
  • Squire Jonas Whichcote
  • Squire Ralph Wandesford
  • Squire Uvedale
  • Stephen Fielding, Lord Stokesley
  • Stephen Glanville
  • Sylvester Fanshawe of Valewood Court
  • Sylvester Hungerford

T: 65 names

  • Terence O'Conor
  • Thaddeus Daly
  • The Duke of Ashmere
  • The Duke of Eversleigh
  • The Duke of Kelbourne
  • The Duke of Stanmere
  • The Duke of Wexcombe
  • The Earl of Beckhampton
  • The Earl of Belford
  • The Earl of Bexcombe
  • The Earl of Bramfield
  • The Earl of Brockenhurst
  • The Earl of Carnforth

T, continued

  • The Earl of Charlbury
  • The Earl of Coltishall
  • The Earl of Crowhurst
  • The Earl of Easingwold
  • The Hon. Adolphus Buckworth
  • The Hon. Algernon Chalmers
  • The Hon. Archibald Clifton
  • The Hon. Aubrey Clopton
  • The Hon. Basil Cobham
  • The Hon. Bevil Copley
  • The Hon. Theodore Bamford
  • The Hon. Theophilus Bickerstaff
  • The Hon. Tobias Bramwell

T, continued

  • The Hon. Valentine Bromley
  • The Hon. Vincent Broughton
  • The Marquess of Ardleigh
  • The Marquess of Calverton
  • The Marquess of Ilminster
  • The Rev. Amos Selwyn
  • The Rev. Caleb Radclyffe
  • The Rev. Daniel Ramsden
  • The Rev. Ebenezer Poyntz
  • The Rev. Isaac Prideaux
  • The Rev. Jonas Pulteney
  • The Rev. Joseph Rashleigh
  • The Rev. Joshua Ridley

T, continued

  • The Rev. Mark Rochford
  • The Rev. Martin Rolle
  • The Rev. Octavius Portman
  • The Rev. Paul Sacheverell
  • The Rev. Peter Sandys
  • The Rev. Septimus Plumptre
  • The Rev. Silas Scrope
  • The Rev. Solomon Savile
  • Theodore Calthorpe
  • Theodore Foljambe of Yelverstone Abbey
  • Theodore Jeremiah
  • Theophilus Frobisher of Ivybridge Manor
  • Theophilus Newdigate

T, continued

  • Thomas Broughton, Earl of Glaisdale
  • Thomas Conyers Ridley
  • Tim Duckett
  • Timothy Dering
  • Timothy Fitzherbert, Lord Tarrant
  • Titus Bulstrode
  • Tobias Glanville of Pipewell Grange
  • Tobias Hildyard
  • Tom Rushout
  • Tony Verney
  • Tristram Hugh
  • Tristram Penrose
  • Tristram Wyvill of Upwood House

U: 1 name

  • Ulick Kirwan

V: 15 names

  • Valentine Dormer
  • Valentine French
  • Valentine Godolphin of Grimsdale Hall
  • Valentine Zachary
  • Vice-Admiral Julian Danvers
  • Vice-Admiral Maurice Fermor
  • Vincent Bartholomew
  • Vincent Gresham of Pellingham Park
  • Vincent Slingsby
  • Viscount Hollingbourne
  • Viscount Kettlewell
  • Viscount Kingsclere
  • Viscount Langport
  • Viscount Ledbury
  • Viscount Malham

W: 8 names

  • Walter Bowes Pennington
  • Walter Chetwode
  • Walter Clifton, Earl of Hartlebury
  • Watkin Pryse
  • William Daventry, Marquess of Chilcombe
  • William Gower Atherton
  • William Hawtrey
  • Wyndham Poyntz

Z: 2 names

  • Zachariah Pym
  • Zachary Parkyns