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Six Letter Boy Names

  1. Airlie
    • Origin:

      Scottish
    • Meaning:

      "place name"
    • Description:

      This Scottish surname and Scottish and Australian place name has a pleasant airy and breezy sound to it. Camden mayor Lara Symkowiak chose the name for her daughter born in 2016.
  2. Dashel
    • Origin:

      Variation of Dashiell
    • Description:

      Variation of Dashiell.
  3. Saheel
    • Zacari
      • Danial
        • Hersch
          • Jimson
            • Rekker
              • Origin:

                Variation of Wrecker
              • Meaning:

                "a person or thing that wrecks or damages something"
              • Description:

                Rekker comes to us thanks to actor Cam Gigandet, who gave his son this phonetic spelling of badass word name Wrecker. Use at your own peril.
            • Zaylin
              • Origin:

                Modern invented name, meaning unknown
              • Description:

                Newly coined options, the letter Z, and strong A sounds all remain on trend for boys in the US and Zaylin ticks all the boxes. Like a mash up of Zaiden, Zayn and Waylon, Zaylin was given to around 70 boys in 2023. It is the second most popular spelling of the name, above Zaylan and Zaylon, but not so well used as Zaylen.
            • Shemar
              • Origin:

                Modern invented name
              • Description:

                Though not technically a one-person name, since 30 baby boys were named Shemar in 2016, Shemar stems from one specific person, prolific actor Shemar Moore. He has said that his parents came up with it by combining the first three letters of each of their first names, Sherrod and Marilyn.
            • Kyland
              • Origin:

                Modern invented name
              • Description:

                A modern mashup of the popular Ky/Kai sound and the trendy -land ending. More than 60 boys were named Kyland in 2022.
            • Massai
              • Origin:

                African tribe; also Italian
              • Meaning:

                "owner of land and farms"
              • Description:

                Unusual name chosen for her son by actress Nia Long, who combined it with the even more unusual literary middle name, Zhivago.
            • Abrams
              • Origin:

                English surname
              • Meaning:

                "Abram's son"
              • Description:

                The surname of filmmaker J.J. Abrams, used as a first name. It first appeared on the US charts in 2020. The M1 Abrams is a model of army tank.
            • Savino
              • Martyn
                • Origin:

                  Welsh
                • Description:

                  The Welsh form of Martin sounds the same, but has a little spelling twist.
              • Dansby
                • Drover
                  • Origin:

                    English occupational surname
                  • Meaning:

                    "driver of sheep or cattle"
                  • Description:

                    Drover, an ancient occupational surname, is right in step with today's styles and would make a distinctive choice. Drover and brothers are fresh updates of such now-widely-used names as Carter and Cooper.
                • Jovial
                  • Origin:

                    English
                  • Meaning:

                    "cheerful, jolly"
                • Rufino
                  • Éamon
                    • Origin:

                      Irish variation of Edmund
                    • Description:

                      This friendlier Celtic version of Edmund has an upbeat feel and a good chance of competing with Aidan and Damon sometime soon.