Animal Names for Boys

Helmer is best-known these days as a product line at Ikea, but if you're looking for an Old School Germanic name and want to move beyond Herman and Wilmer, Helmer may be your man.

Somewhere between Kevin and Heaven lies summery Hefin. In Wales it is used steadily, though is never hugely popular. Hefin derives from Haf, "summer": the month of June in Welsh is mis Mehefin, "midsummer month".

A fresher alternative to Dalton.

Hutchings, rarely heard as a first name, is a semi-patronymic denoting 'son of Hugh'. What it's got going for it is cute nickname Hutch, a cousin of Hitch and Huck.

Hilaire, a name that has rarely been exported out of its native France, was originally bestowed in honor of the fourth century bishop and theologian St. Hilaire of Poitiers.

All Adolph variations are best avoided, though this takes some of the onus off.

The name of a minor character in Game of Thrones, Balon Greyjoy, the ancient lord of the Iron Islands and father to lead character Theon Greyjoy.

Cleophas is a variant of Cleopas, who was one of the men in the Bible who encountered Jesus on the road to Emmaus following his resurrection. As a name, it appeared on a handful of birth certificates each year during the mid-twentieth century, but it hasn't seen much use recently.