10: Mason and Charlotte

Boys: Mason

Meaning: Transferred use of the surname, which originated in the early Middle Ages as an occupational name for a worker in stone.

Celebrity: Mason Cook

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Girls: Charlotte

Meaning: Feminine diminutive of Charles, used in England since the 17th century. It was particularly popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, in part due to the influence of firstly Queen Charlotte (1744–1818), wife of George III, and secondly the novelist Charlotte Brontë (1816–55); it has again come to prominence since the 1980s, especially in England and Australia.

Celebrity: Charlotte Ross