1900+ Four Letter Boy Names

A Cornish king whose legend inspired Shakepeare to write King Lear, he supposedly had a daughter named Cordelia who was crowned queen after his death.

Depending on how you look at it, a variation of the word name Colt or an abbreviated form of Kolton.

Diminutive of Matthijs, the Dutch form of Matthew.

The Dutch love using short forms as full names, and so the popular name here is Faas -- who knows or cares what it was originally short for. In the US, this would be a very original name indeed -- it doesn't show up at all on the Social Security records. Pronunciation is like fast with the t at the end.

River in north-west Wales, spelled in English as Dovey. Like many British river names, it may relate to the word for water.

Stick with Fox, please.

Briefly used as a male name in the early 20th century. Doll is a surname with a variety of origins and meanings, some more desirable than others.

One of the most famous Arabic names, Iman is a gender-neutral choice fairly evenly balanced in the US given last year to 110 girls and 80 baby boys. Another spelling popular in some countries is Eman.

This name of a character in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is short, sweet and Southern-sounding.

Thảo is a unisex, though primarily feminine, name in Vietnam.

One of the most usable names for an American child from the Icelandic Top 50.