Personal Favorites from the Top 1000 (Boys)

Earlier I posted my favorite girls’ names from the 2015 American top 1000.  Here are the boys’ names!  Within the parentheses are their respective ranks out of 1000 – not their ranks on my personal lists (admittedly, I don’t rank them that way at all).

• Jacob (#4)
• William (#5)
• Ethan (#6)
• James (#7)
• Alexander (#8)
• Michael (#9)
• Benjamin (#10)
• Daniel (#12)
• Matthew (#15)
• David (#18)
• Oliver (#19)
• Samuel (#23)
• John (#26)
• Luke (#28)
• Henry (#29)
• Andrew (#30)
• Isaac (#31)
• Christopher (#32)
• Joshua (#33)
• Sebastian (#35)
• Julian (#45)
• Jonathan (#48)
• Charles (#50)
• Thomas (#51)
• Eli (#53)
• Josiah (#57)
• Adrian (#58)
• Adam (#73)
• Leo (#91)
• Ezra (#92)
• Nathaniel (#97)
• Theodore (#99)
• Elias (#100)
• Tristan (#101)
• Leonardo (#103) – Think this will start dropping in popularity now that Leo DiCaprio’s finally won an Oscar? 😉
• Micah (#108)
• Harrison (#119)
• George (#135) – Easily in my top 10.  I’d go so far as to call a son George, though it might officially be in a middle spot. 
• Emmett (#139)
• Jonah (#143)
• Timothy (#147)
• Ezekiel (#148)
• Emmanuel (#150)
• Steven (#154)
• Richard (#155)
• Edward (#158)
• Joel (#159)
• Patrick (#164)
• Alan (#167)
• Abraham (#170)
• August (#195)
• Mark (#196)
• Maximus (#197)
• Dean (#204)
• Peter (#206)
• Jasper (#215)
• Simon (#234)
• Stephen (#246)
• Francisco (#247)
• Felix (#262)
• Martin (#276)
• Arthur (#292)
• Hector (#303)
• Tobias (#316)
• Edgar (#317)
• Joaquin (#321)
• Gideon (#328)
• Gregory (#346)
• Atticus (#350)
• Desmond (#351)
• Fabian (#356)
• Nehemiah (#362)
• Orion (#368)
• Noel (#373)
• Solomon (#376)
• Rory (#377)
• Leland (#381)
• Brendan (#388)
• Finnegan (#405)
• Armando (#413)
• Zachariah (#422)
• Enrique (#428)
• Philip (#434)
• Maximilian (#437)
• Scott (#455)
• Sullivan (#459)
• Rodrigo (#460)
• Pierce (#466)
• Augustus (#467)
• Moses (#471)
• Francis (#482)
• Atlas (#490)
• Sterling (#495)
• Lawrence (#497)
• Rhys (#511)
• Frederick (#517)
• Leonidas (#519)
• Winston (#524)
• Asa (#531)
• Otto (#543)
• Matthias (#555)
• Lewis (#569)
• Roland (#586)
• Byron (#597)
• Quincy (#599)
• Orlando (#614)
• Samson (#622)
• Lucian (#634)
• Lionel (#643)
• Cassius (#646)
• Forrest (#659)
• Zechariah (#662)
• Morgan (#674)
• Hezekiah (#678)
• Lee (#679)
• Thaddeus (#703)
• Zeke (#704)
• Jedidiah (#716)
• Ares (#723)
• Amos (#732)
• Apollo (#751)
• Elisha (#778)
• Enoch (#788)
• Alfonso (#792)
• Felipe (#798)
• Stefan (#800)
• Blaise (#805)
• Harold (#809)
• Gordon (#812)
• Augustine (#820)
• Hugh (#849)
• Cedric (#856)
• Magnus (#860)
• Justus (#866)
• Reginald (#875)
• Alfred (#920)
• Ignacio (#925) – This is new to the top 1000!  I’d love to see an Ignatius even more, though…
• Ephraim (#928)
• Seamus (#948)
• Ernest (#956)
• Achilles (#968)
• Robin (#973)

What do you think of these names?  I realize many of these are Biblical; many classic or traditional American boys’ names come from the Bible, saints, or theologians. There are also quite a few Greek and Roman historical and mythological names in this set.