One Syllable Names for Boys

While many Americans will likely think of the cereal brand, 21 parents named their baby boy this in 2022. It fits in with other punchy 1 syllable names like Pax, Rex, and Knox trending in recent years. Country music artist Kix Brooks was born Leon Eric Brooks.

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.

If Bear and Fox can make it as baby names, why not Tiger. The Spanish Tigre has a more gender-neutral feel.

Heinz has become a cartoonish German name, prone to ketchup teasing.

For admirers of modernist architect I. M.

Ibo is short but striking. Another, unrelated but equally appealing name is Ivo.

A solid, brief but not brusque single-syllable surname with a presidential pedigree.