Five Letter Boy Names

A child named Peale may have to endure more than a few banana jokes, but the Peales were a distinguished family of artists.

Bexen occasionally pops up as a surname and place name in Germany and elsewhere in Mitteleuropa, probably drawn from the German name Beck, which means "brook". As a first name, though, Bexen is probably an American invented name, perhaps a splice of Jaxen, a Jackson variation, and Bexley, a Top 1000 name for girls.

A sparky diminutive of Erszébet, the Hungarian form of Elizabeth.

Panya is a Russian diminutive that sounds a tad feminine to the Western sensibility.

A Catalan classic that runs the risk of looking like a typo for those not in the know.