Boy Names That End in -er

One of the new two-syllable boys' names with more style than substance.

More familiar from TV -- Rake, Leave It To Beaver -- than real life, and perhaps likely to stay that way, given the gruesome association with a butcher's knife. Cleaver was, for instance, the title of the violent mob movie Christopher wrote in the world of The Sopranos.

Forever still feels more like a sentiment than a name, and rather feminine at that.

Any name that combines two big trends -- in this case, occupational and western names -- has potential.

Ryler is one of those names created by marrying two trending sounds, the Ry beginning as in Riley, Rylen, and the literary Ryle, and the er ending, as in hundreds of boys' names trending over the past several years.

Variant of Meriwether