Five Letter Boy Names

This English surname offers an interesting mix of images: it sounds upper-crusty yet macho, and also conjures up the coziness of a wintery ski lodge. As a surname it is associated with the Massachusetts Republican Senate Minority Leader in the Woodrow Wilson era, Henry Cabot Lodge, who was the father of poet George Cabot Lodge and grandfather of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., who was ambassador to the UN and Richard Nixon's 1960 presidential running mate.

Surname and place name with two separate derivations. It can derive from the Norman place name Auby, with d'Auby meaning "from Auby" later Anglicized to Dalby. It can also have Norse roots, meaning "valley settlement".

The surname Patel comes from the state of Gujarat, where it was given to members of the landowning and agrarian caste, the Patidar. Today it's the most common last name among the Indian diaspora, with about 150,000 Patels in both America and the United Kingdom.