Animal Names for Boys

This unusual Old Testament name belongs to one of the twelve sons of Jacob and Leah, the founder of one of the twelve tribes of Israel.

The Estonian form on Heinrich would make a one-of-a-kind choice in the US — it's never placed on the American charts.

Sounds a bit like John, but has a completely different origin: this is the Slovene and Bosnian version of the Turkish male name Can.

Famously the father of Osman I, founder of the Ottoman Dynasty. Ertuğrul is derived from the Turkish elements er, meaning "brave man," and tuğrul, a mythical falcon-like bird in Turkish and Hungarian legend, also known as a turul.

American place and tribe name, derived via French from the Dakota word ayúxba "sleepy ones".

Indalecio is an old Spanish name that is newly popular in Argentina.

A pretty private park in Manhattan, doesn't quite make it as a baby name.

Aalam is surely the first name in many books, introduced to the US by DJ Khaled, who chose it for his son in 2020.