Dad Names

Even less popular than the rarely-used Deangelo. This spelling is likely helped by singer-songwriter and record producer D'Angelo.

Sounds more like a car than a baby name. Some sources related it to the English surname Carter, which would be more stylish these days.

Humberto lifts this ancient name out of the gross association to fictional pedophile Humbert Humbert, investing it with a good measure of Latin charm. It helps that the pronunciation is significantly different, much closer to the Italian Umberto than to the flat-footed original.

A number of parents took up the name of the TV talk show host in the early nineties, but it now seems to have lost momentum.

Ladarius (often written as LaDarius) could be a compound name, created by combining the name Darius with the prefix la - or with any name starting or ending in la (such as Lamar, Lawrence, or Layla). This would give it the meaning "the possessor of goodness". Alternatively, it could come from the Greek element lados and the Latin word arius meaning "princely" or "noble".

Briefly faddish a few decades ago when Darrell was cool. But does have a creative connection to poet Randall Jarrell.