Names Ending in M for Boys

Isle is a super rare nature name that sounds like an appealing unisex form of Isla.

Familiar as the most common form of greeting in Hebrew, but also associated with top female model Shalom Harlow.

A middle-aged, if not elderly, name associated with Israeli statesman and onetime prime minister Begin, this is a symbolic appellation for boys born on the holiday of Tishah-b'Ab.

The way Wilhelm is pronounced anyway, so a pointless spelling variation.

An attractive and popular choice in the Netherlands, but not one we see making it to the Top 50 in the US anytime soon.

This name of a minor Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament is rarely heard outside the Jewish culture.

Azzam might be open to some "shazam" teasing.

The meaning derives from the traditional Arab act of crushing bread into crumbs in order to share it. Recently heard in the hit French Netflix series Call My Agent in its French form Hicham.

Irrevocably tied to long-lived, controversial South Carolina senator Strom (born James) Thurman; Strom, which sounds like an anagram of Storm, was his mother's maiden name. With a stretch, you might consider this one of the German names for boysthat's also a nature name.

Pronounced like Tom, but not everyone will know that.

A relatively rare English place and surname, Hallam could make a distinctive but usable boy's name. Hallam was the surname of the beloved Cambridge friend whose death Alfred, Lord Tennyson, mourns in his famous poem In Memoriam. A.H.H. Tennyson's eldest son, whom he named Hallam, became a Governor-General of Australia.

Like Justice and Peace, this word name makes a very strong statement. Ving Rhames chose it for his boy.

Despite its attractive meaning, this name is very rare in the States: it has only appeared twice in the US charts, in 2006 and 2020. Akam is a genre of Classical Tamil poetry, and the ring name of WWE wrestler Sunny Dhinsa.

A more scriptural way to spell Abraham.

Chisholm is a habitational surname — if it's on your family tree, you have ancestors from Chisholme, Scotland, although they were originally of Norman and Saxon descent.

This phonetic spelling of the Kardashian baby name Dream surprised many by being one of the fastest-rising girl names of 2022. Both Dream and Jream were still only given to under 100 boys the same year.

Arabic or Islamic spelling of Adam