Animal Names for Boys

A bold, unisex virtue name that first made the charts for boys in 1990 and girls in 2008. Millennials may associate it with the Cartoon Network show Courage the Cowardly Dog, about a timid, good-natured dog by the name.

A generation or two ago it may have been unthinkable to name your child something as bold as Divine. But with names like Messiah and Saint in the mainstream, almost anything is fair game.

Belisario is romantic, dashing, but perhaps a bit too elaborate. You might consider Belisario a masculine twist on the popular Belle names for girls.

In the Old Testament, Itamar (or Ithamar) was the youngest son of Aaron.

Fenmore Baldwin is a character on The Young and the Restless, his first name being his mother's maiden name. In the real world, it was given to virtually no babies last year.

This name of a California desert town, used by Deborah Falconer and Robert Downey, Jr. for their son, makes a much livelier and more individual – not to mention more masculine – improvisation on the themes of India and Indiana.

This obscure biblical name is only mentioned twice in the Bible — first as a divorced Israelite and then as a priest.

Straightforward surname with potential thanks to the rise of Carson. The actress Greer Garson gives it a splash of Hollywood glamor.

River in north-west Wales, spelled in English as Dovey. Like many British river names, it may relate to the word for water.

We can hear the kids teasing him from here.

Variation of Dashiell.

A name given by the Traveller community in England to a child born when it is raining.

One you might like for its cozy meaning, but there is that Pied Piper rat connection.

A Greek classic.

A more modern form of Eleutherios, meaning "free".