Animal Names for Boys

  1. Birsha
    • Origin:

      Hebrew
    • Description:

      Birsha was a king of Gomorrha described as the "son of wickedness"
  2. Essa
    • Burleigh
      • Origin:

        English
      • Meaning:

        "meadow belonging to a manor"
      • Description:

        Let's hope he's "burly".
    • Bless
      • Origin:

        English word name
      • Description:

        A spiritual choice that's more streamlined than Blessing.
    • Grayling
      • Gregg
        • Beniamino
          • Haynes
            • Colvin
              • Origin:

                English surname name
              • Description:

                Colvin is an English surname with a distinguished history; the Colvins were one of the leading colonial families of early British India, and Shawn Colvin is a popular American singer. We suspect, however, that most of the 18 parents who used Colvin as a boys' name in 2016 were thinking of it as a less popular alternative to other "Col-" names, like Colin and Colton.
            • Chay
              • Howel
                • Origin:

                  English
                • Meaning:

                  "land with hills"
                • Description:

                  The Anglophile Howard.
              • Hernandez
                • Ifan
                  • Hackett
                    • Origin:

                      German occupational name
                    • Meaning:

                      "little hewer"
                    • Description:

                      Hack is, unfortunately, both an unappealing word and sound.
                  • Alperen
                    • Origin:

                      Turkish
                    • Meaning:

                      "heroic saint"
                    • Description:

                      Alperen is derived from the Turkish roots alp, meaning "hero," and eren, "saint."
                  • Anatoli
                    • Aban
                      • Origin:

                        Persian or Arabic
                      • Meaning:

                        "October; the waters; clear, elegant"
                      • Description:

                        Aban is the Persian word for the month of October, derived from the Avestan apes, meaning "the waters".
                    • Benedikt
                      • Deodar
                        • Origin:

                          Sanskrit
                        • Meaning:

                          "divine wood"
                        • Description:

                          Name of the "god tree," a tall cedar native to India that also grows in California and England. Not a prime baby name candidate.
                      • Halsten