Three Syllable Names for Boys

  1. Vesuvio
    • Origin:

      Italian place-name
    • Description:

      Volcano name for an active, bubbly child -- but be careful -- volcanoes do erupt.
  2. Stamatios
    • Origin:

      Greek
    • Meaning:

      "stop"
    • Description:

      A saint's name, which comes from a Greek root meaning 'Stop!" because it was originally bestowed on a son whose older siblings had not survived, and was given in the sense of "Stop dying."
  3. Aleksei
    • Sentinel
      • Origin:

        English from Italian
      • Meaning:

        "lookout, watcher"
    • Illarion
      • Explorer
        • Origin:

          English word name
        • Meaning:

          "one who explores"
        • Description:

          A bold word name choice for the intrepid baby namer who hopes her son will face the world with a sense of discovery.
      • Dimitar
        • Origin:

          Bulgarian variation of Dmitri
        • Description:

          Dimitar is the Bulgarian (and Macedonian) version of Dmitri, which is itself a variation of the name of the Greek goddess Demeter, whose name means earth mother.
      • Perequin
        • Uduak
          • Origin:

            Ibibio
          • Meaning:

            "will, desire"
          • Description:

            Uduak is a name from the Ibibio language, native to Southern Nigeria.
        • Olympus
          • Iagan
            • Bradbury
              • Origin:

                English
              • Meaning:

                "dweller near the wood fort"
              • Description:

                Possibility for fans of science fiction writer Ray.
            • Livingstone
              • Calisto
                • Taio
                  • Origin:

                    Spanish, meaning unknown
                  • Description:

                    British singer-songwriter Jacob Taio Cruz dropped his first name, and has put his unusual middle on the map.
                • Odilon
                  • Origin:

                    French
                  • Meaning:

                    "wealth"
                  • Description:

                    A French masculine form of Odilia/Odile which ranked in the top 500 in France for most of the first two decades of the 20th century, but has since fallen out of use.
                • Hespero
                  • Origin:

                    Greek
                  • Meaning:

                    "evening, evening star"
                  • Description:

                    Hespero is a more user-friendly version of Hesperos, in Greek mythology the personalification of the Evening Star.
                • Cirillo
                  • Chochokpi
                    • Origin:

                      Choctaw, Native American
                    • Meaning:

                      "throne for the clouds"
                  • Mykola
                    • Origin:

                      Ukrainian variation of Nicholas
                    • Meaning:

                      "people of victory"
                    • Description:

                      This Ukrainian variation of classic Nicholas is pronounced like the more familiar Nikola, but with an M of course. Myko would be a cool and edgy nickname option.