5000+ Three-Syllable Boy Names

This name of an ancient Greek historian sounds too long-ago and faraway to consider for a modern child.

Though lots of obscure place-names are now on the map, it's hard to imagine this one inspiring anyone.

A rare smoosh of Dontae and Octavius, also spelled Dontavious.

An uncommon English surname which could make for a handsome spin on Emery.

Paterson is a surname-name to continue a line of Peters and also the name of a city in New Jersey, hometown of poets William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg.

The ancient Polish name Mieczysław was derived from Slavic elements — mechi, meaning "sword," and slava, glory.

Gracious African choice.

An Old Norse name derived from the Irish Muircheartach "sea warrior". Kjartan is a modern variant.

Kristofer and all his cousins (and kousins) is an ancient name that was hugely popular from the 1970s through the 1990s, spawning a wide number of variations. Americans will be familiar with this phonetic spelling with an exotic spin.