Animal Names for Boys

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.

Although this Italian name is identical to the word for "lily", it is actually a cognate of Giles (English) or Gilles (French), meaning "young goat".