One Syllable Names for Boys

One of the new-wave Christian word names that has appeared occasionally on the charts since the 2010s.

The name of the teenaged son on the dear departed television show "Huff."

Noakes is a conjunction of the Middle English phrase atten okes, meaning "at the oaks." It became a surname for people who, appropriately, lived near oak trees. Today it's a rare and attractive alternative to Oakley, Oak, and the like.

The spelling Woolf inevitably conjures writer Virginia. If you're a fan of Mrs. Dalloway and the Bloomsbury group, Woolf might be a creative way to combine a trendy animal name with an original honor name. Woolf was the surname of Virginia's husband, Leonard.

Once you get past thinking of it as a red-painted building where they keep cows and hay, has a nice plainspoken country-like feel and may make a cooler diminutive than the still-purple Barney.

Likely to be misinterpreted as Mayan, with emphasis on the first syllable, as in the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica.

Lech (brother of Czech and Rus) was the mythical father of the Poles, and also the name of the Polish worker-president Lech Walesa, but it still isn't a name that travels well.

Retro nickname for Charles that has the potential for revival, a la Hal, Ike, and Gus.

Earthbound surname that few would make as first choice.

The Slovene name for the month of May. It is used as a male name, which is unusual given that most translations are connected to the goddess Maia and considered to be feminine.

Rise joins the latest class of modern Christian names for its uplifting spiritual associations. Rise may be especially appropriate for an Easter baby. We expect it will, erm, rise now that Nick Cannon and Brittany Bell have used it for their son, born in 2022.