Five Letter Boy Names

Spero has a cool sound and a wonderful positive meaning.

Anyone who's seen "The Book of Mormon" or visited Utah knows this as the title taken by male Mormon missionaries during their term of service. We'd advise anyone who lives somewhere with any significant Mormon population to avoid it for that reason.

A cool Bulgarian name with a unique nature meaning, although it is likely to get mispronounced in Anglophone countries.

The spelling used by a character on TNT's Animal Kingdom and, we hope, few others.

Strong, spare, and highly unusual -- there were no babies recorded of either gender receiving this name in one recent year -- place-name referring to the northernmost state in New England. All state names qualify as distinctly American names.

A common Basque name first used in French Basque writer Agosti Xaho's 1845 work "The Legend of Aitor."

A handsome nature name – and an intriguing alternative to Willow – that is also found as a rare English surname.

Urmas was likely derived from the Estonian word urm, meaning "frost" and "catkin." It was first used by Johannes Linnankoski, a Finnish author, for his 1908 play Kirot. It is considered an older name in Estonia, where it was popular in the mid-20th century.

Pronounced to rhyme with fjord, the Norse god of the sea's name, this would make an unorthodox choice for sea-lovers and fishermen.

The French word for "love" translates nicely into a baby name for a child of either sex.

This could be a possible replacement for the overused Tyson, though it has something of a commercial feel related to the brand of vacuum cleaners.