Animal Names for Boys

Is Armoni a respelling of the designer name Armani or a Hebrew name meaning chestnut? Your choice, but we prefer the nature interpretation.

Two completely different images come from its national pronunciations -- BOY-err or boy-AY -- the latter giving it an effete French accent.

Celestine is more familiar as a female name these days, but it also has a long history of male usage – most notably, as the name of five popes. It ultimately derives from the Latin caelum "heavens, skies".

This French surname — stemming from Dupré, meaning "from the meadow" — was given to 20 baby boys as first name in 2022.

Off-putting cousin of Bradley and Rodney.

A name from Welsh legend. Amaethon son of Dôn is mentioned in several medieval Welsh texts. In Culhwch and Olwen he is the only person who can plow a certain field, and in the poem The Battle of the Trees he stole a dog and a roebuck from the otherworld and defeated its ruler. It has been suggested that the name originally belonged to a pre-Christian god of agriculture, though that would have been many hundreds of years before the first surviving texts mentioning him.

Sweet and southern-feeling, maybe thanks to Horton Foote, author of Tender Mercies and The Trip to Bountiful, not to mention the Dr. Seuss connection.

Courtlandt, with its added U, is an English form of the Dutch habitational surname Cortlandt. Cortlandt was a village near modern-day Wijk bij Duurstede, Netherlands. Its name was derived from the Dutch elements cort, meaning "short" or "narrow," and landt, "land."

A somewhat solemn name for a child. The feminine version is Bakarne.