650+ Boy Names That End in -en

The new Jason, spelled many different ways, and popularized by basketball star Jalen Rose.

A century ago, a handful of boys were named Vivien or Vivian every year compared with thousands of girls. That number has now dwindled to zero.

An unusual, sensitive, and gently attractive Hebrew name.

One of the new K boys' names that emerged in the nineties, it's now slipping off the radar.

Rylen is the more-unusual spelling variation of Rylan and the even more popular Ryland. It also takes a cue from the long-trendy surname-name Riley and adds the newly-trendy n ending.

This play on Hayden is likely influenced by the popularity of the Aiden names. It has appeared in the US Top 1000 for eight of the past twelve years.

Eleven didn't feel more namelike than any other number...until the (female) "Stranger Things" character came along. Now it seems like a possibility - albeit a rare one - for both sexes. Other associations include the number of players in a football team, and Apollo 11, the spacecraft of the first moon landing.

Spelling Camden with a K makes it less of a place name—Camden is a downmarket city in New Jersey and an upmarket area of London—and more of a Kardashian-era confection, or maybe konfection. Both Kamden and Camden are in the Top 500 boys’ names.

The more popular Aiden becomes, the more spelling variations we see in the Top 1000. This version was as high as Number 271 in 2009, though we recommend choosing a different spelling if you're set on this uber-popular moniker.

English surname and place name, or a variation on Beauden.

While teasing about names is not as bad as it once was, the possibilities presented by this name would be difficult for any pubescent boy to resist.

This unusual (to the American ear) unisex name is used throughout Scandinavia and Germany.

See QUENTIN and QUINTIN.

Underused literary name (as in the poet John) with a -den ending that's very much in style.

Tilen is the Slovene form of Giles — one of those names that feel ultra-British but is actually Greek in origin.