Names Ending in X for Boys

Radix is a Latin word meaning "root" that was adopted as a name — in the form of Raddix — by Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden for their daughter, born in 2020. The following year, both Raddix and Radix debuted on the charts for boys.

If Jimi Hendrix's last name was too tame for you, you could add an extra X to the end -- enough parents did so in 2017 to make this one of the fastest-rising boys' names.

Basque form of John

Trey or Trip or even Deuce, yes; Deux is tougher.

If this name makes you think of Victorian novels, it's because Fairfax was part of Mr Rochester's name in Jane Eyre, and the surname of a minor character in Jane Austen's Emma. It has a distinctly aristocratic feel, despite its straightforward meaning. Fairfax is also a city in Virginia.

German painter and sculptor Bendix Passig bore this eye-catching name, a Frisian and German form of Benedict, also found as a surname.