Animal Names for Boys

A legendary King of Argos, whose name has been variously translated as "inescapable" or "not inclined to run away". Variant forms include Adrastus and Adrestus.

Cheever has a nice, cheery sound, literary ties to novelist and short writer John Cheever and also, sideways, to the Edward Arlington Robinson narrative poem "Miniver Cheevy," as well as a subliminal association with the desirable word achiever: all strong pluses.

Traditionally given to the eighth son in Japan. It can also be spelled Hachiro.

This early name of emperors and popes survives in modern forms such as Honor, used for both genders.