Six Letter Boy Names

The name from which Jordan arose, Yarden has a nice combination of river imagery and a sound connoting a garden. Like Jordan, used for both sexes.

Screen legend Marlon's surname has loads more swagger than his first. But little Brando will forever have to endure jokes connected with the actor.

Tomás is one of the most popular names in Portugal, also used in Spanish-speaking countries and recently gaining popularity in Ireland, where it's the traditional spelling of Thomas.

Islwyn is the name of a mountain in Wales which has a pleasant fluid sound. Islwyn has recently been made more familiar through Runescape.

Name of a king featured in the Old Testament.

While teasing about names is not as bad as it once was, the possibilities presented by this name would be difficult for any pubescent boy to resist.

This spelling of Bennett is typically seen as a surname, but gets moderate use as a first name for baby boys and girls.

Hallow is a word meaning sacred or holy. As the root word for Halloween (orginally All Hallows' Eve), this name might be an evocative choice for a baby born on or near October 31st. It could work well for either a boy or a girl and offers the nicknames Hal and Halley.

For the parent who might also have Buck and Ryder on his list.

Frisco is a frisky, roguish semi-place-name (San Francisco natives never call it that) that could make a lively, unusual o-ending choice.

These days Finney is most likely a pet form of Finn, but it was once a standard nickname for the biblical Phineas.

GÖKTUĞ is a Turkish air-to-air missile development program, from gök, "sky", and tuğ, "banner". Göktuğ has been co-opted as a baby name in Turkey, mostly among those with ties to the Air Force, and is now one of the most popular baby boy names there.

The name of one of the Three Wise Men from the East is heard in several European countries, but rarely here.

Unusual surname occasionally used as a first.

A variant of Caelan, from a Gaelic name meaning "slender".

Brewer is a surname turned first name that comes from the occupational name for someone who brews beer. Definitely a cool guy name.

A name that shows up on the Social Security roles of a hundred years ago. Let's hope it was a never-to-be-repeated mistake.

A familiar and usable last name turned first. Or you could look at it as a homophone of the verb howl, which gives it a wilder feel.