Animal Names for Boys

Most parents would prefer BRADLEY or BRADFORD to get to eternally cool nickname BRAD--unless they wanted to honor cricket legend Donald Bradman, considered the greatest batsman of all time.

Traditional Japanese name for the fifth-born son makes for a unique baby name in the West.

With its ties to tranquil Walden Pond, and harmonious meaning, this could be a modern virtue name.

This Yoruba praise name is used throughout West Africa, and has an empowering meaning.

A distinguished English occupational surname referring to a senior official who managed the household of a noble or monarch. The best known historical bearer is British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who was in office at the start of the Second World War.

A case in which the son is now more attractive than the father. There have been Colonial settlers surnamed Dennison on this side of the Atlantic since 1623.

Historically interesting via the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which supported the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine.

Dimitar is the Bulgarian (and Macedonian) version of Dmitri, which is itself a variation of the name of the Greek goddess Demeter, whose name means earth mother.