Animal Names for Boys

Ieuan is a Scrabble-rack full of impossible vowels. Consider Ewan, Ian, or Owen instead.

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.

Think Harry with a go-getter ending.

Cornish form of the Welsh name Arthen, meaning "bear".

This Irish saint's name makes an attractive alternative for Dylan or Donald.

Gandalf is most famously the name of the powerful wizard in Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. The name is drawn from Old Norse mythology.

Iconic guitar manufacturer that could make for an edgy baby name for rock lovers – or petrolheads; a fender is also part of a car.

Variation of Dashiell.

We can hear the kids teasing him from here.

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

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

Norman form of the Germanic name Haimo.

When Kim Kardashian and Kanye West named their daughter Chicago — after West's hometown — we expected it to rise for baby girls. But American parents have taken to Chicago as a boy name. It's been given to more boys than girls every year since 2018.

Bheem, the name of the second of the five sons of Pandu in the Hindu epic the Mahabharata, was renowned as a strong warrior. Bheem is the name of one of the two heroes of the Bollywood film RRR.

Could be difficult to grasp: Hoss. The "Bonanza" cowboy.