Three Syllable Names for Boys
- Vesuvio
Origin:
Italian place-nameDescription:
Volcano name for an active, bubbly child -- but be careful -- volcanoes do erupt.
- Stamatios
Origin:
GreekMeaning:
"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."
- Aleksei
- Sentinel
Origin:
English from ItalianMeaning:
"lookout, watcher"
- Illarion
- Explorer
Origin:
English word nameMeaning:
"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 DmitriDescription:
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:
IbibioMeaning:
"will, desire"Description:
Uduak is a name from the Ibibio language, native to Southern Nigeria.
- Olympus
- Iagan
- Bradbury
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"dweller near the wood fort"Description:
Possibility for fans of science fiction writer Ray.
- Livingstone
- Calisto
- Taio
Origin:
Spanish, meaning unknownDescription:
British singer-songwriter Jacob Taio Cruz dropped his first name, and has put his unusual middle on the map.
- Odilon
Origin:
FrenchMeaning:
"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:
GreekMeaning:
"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 AmericanMeaning:
"throne for the clouds"
- Mykola
Origin:
Ukrainian variation of NicholasMeaning:
"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.