Animal Names for Boys

Faramir is a character appearing in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, first seen in The Two Towers and described as a gentle lover of lore and music, a leader in battle. The character appeared in not only the books but film and video games. Faramir has already been used by one berry Tolkien fan as an intriguing middle name.

Fargo as a baby name? Though we haven't heard of any babies named for this frigid North Dakota city, it's certainly on the map of possibilities.

An invented name that fits in with classmates Brayden and Jaylen.

Names ending in -ton (meaning "settlement") are white-hot, and Arrington is one of the freshest on the scene.

Humberto lifts this ancient name out of the gross association to fictional pedophile Humbert Humbert, investing it with a good measure of Latin charm. It helps that the pronunciation is significantly different, much closer to the Italian Umberto than to the flat-footed original.

The charming Hitch played by Will Smith in the eponymous movie put this into the lexicon. Also known as the nickname of director Alfred Hitchcock and writer Christopher Hitchens, who titled his autobiography "Hitch."

A unisex name with great nickname potential, currently particularly popular for boys in Azerbaijan.

Erasmus may be out of fashion in the English-speaking world, but in Slovenia, Erazem is a fashionable riser.

Nace, a derivative of Ignac, is considered much more fashionable in Slovenia.

Borrowed or coined by J K Rowling for a vain and selfish teacher in the Harry Potter books, this dramatic name may also be a rare variant of the surname Gilroy, meaning "son of the king's servant".