15,000+ Two-Syllable Boy Names

A unisex Hawaiian name with a fitting meaning. It also happens to mean "cloud" in Maori.

A family name, a bit haughty.

Interesting and energetic Hungarian form of Ferdinand.

More familiar from TV -- Rake, Leave It To Beaver -- than real life, and perhaps likely to stay that way, given the gruesome association with a butcher's knife. Cleaver was, for instance, the title of the violent mob movie Christopher wrote in the world of The Sopranos.

In Virgil's Aenid, Ripheus is "the most just" of all the Trojans. He dies defending Troy. Dante and Boccaccio also reference the hero. Chaucer calls him Rupheo, a possibility with a spirited sound.

One of the new two-syllable boys' names with more style than substance.

This handsome Ethiopian boy name is both easy to say and spell, but is also distinct and unique. Haddis feels on trend, along with Harris, Ellis, and similar names.