Animal Names for Boys

The double-A is often a hard sell for baby names in an English-speaking context, and many will find Dario, as in public intellectual Dario Fo, appealing enough with just one. But diehard Game of Thrones fans may be attracted to this version, as it is the first name of charming rascal Daario Naharis, a mercenary first hired, then seduced, by Daenerys Targaryen during her conquest of Slaver's Bay.

Compact, to-the-point surname name. Bear in mind the stock-market association - it may be a bit much with the last name Jones.

This name of a character in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is short, sweet and Southern-sounding.

Variant of Alcuin

A popular name in medieval Scotland, it can be found in the surname Macbeth, meaning "son of Beathan" or "son of life." In later years it was increasingly anglicized as Benjamin.

Forever Dickens's con artist in Oliver Twist.

Heavy and horsey.

Eligius comes from the same root as the word eligible. St. Eligius was a 7th century bishop in France and is the patron of goldsmiths and metalworkers.