Townsend
January 25, 2025  |
| Photo Courtesy of Natalie Harris Photography |
I sometimes feel like I could write a book on great preppy surname names, especially for boys. There’s just something I find so attractive about them. Todays name is no different – heard on a young contestant on a kid’s cooking show J
Townsend is a pretty straightforward name, meaning – and you probably guessed this – ‘from the end of the town’. It’s much more popular as a last name, but quite rare as a given name. It sits well outside the US top 1,000, given to just 18 boys in 2015.
Whereas I often like preppy surname names because they feel somewhat polished, I find that the main appeal for me in Townsend is that