Animal Names for Boys

This Punjabi boy's name is used in India.

If you like the Irish surname feel, there are loads of more congenial options.

Belden is a little-used surname-name that might work in this age of Belles.

Surname from a landscape feature, associated with author Gore Vidal and Bill Clinton's Vice President Al Gore. Its alternative meaning - as in gory - may explain why it's never made it into the charts.

A Southern place name — found in North Carolina and Virginia — borne by early enslaved people in the US. It came over from England, where Albemarle was a variation of the French county name Aumale, from the Latin Alba Marla, "white marl." Marl is a type of soil.

Ananda is historically a masculine Sanskrit name — a form of Anand — but the A ending and similarity to Amanda give it a feminine flavor in the English-speaking world. In fact, it is currently used more often among baby girls in the US.

A term occurring in the Old Testament and Hebrew Bible that later became personified as the devil in the New Testament.

Popular in Ireland, as is the similarly difficult spelling EOGHAN, but over here, most would stick with Owen.