Three Letter Boy Names

Retro musical reference to classic Steely Dan rock album, but mostly for girls today.

A Robert nickname out of use for hundreds of years, but now sounds cooler than Bob or Rob for a modern boy.

This simple unisex Vietnamese name has multiple possible meanings, including "hero", "petal", "brave", "bright", depending on the characters used to write it.

Sip was recorded on the US Top 1000 a single year, 1885, when it was given to five baby boys. This may have been a clerical error from its use as a Chinese surname, which is traditionally written before given names.

A German surname you do NOT want to use as a first.

A recently-created Slovene name with no etymological roots. Naj debuted in the Slovenian Top 100 in 2019, when it was given to 23 baby boys. However, based on the use of Naja in Slovenia as a diminutive of Anastazija or Natalija as well as a stand alone name, Naj (and similar Nai) might have come about in a similar way, from Nikolaj or Nikolai, for example.

Typical African day-of-the-week name.

A unisex name in Israel but in the U.S., it might as well be Sue.