One Syllable Names: Part 1

A sleek nickname name more attractive than its longer form, there have been a couple of prominent baseball player Cletes as well as the broadcast journalist Clete Roberts.

Appealing short form of the stuffy Cleveland, occasionally used on its own.

Cliff is a familiar, timeless short form -- never too popular, yet widely known -- that you might also think of as a geographical name ala Vale or Field.

As flinty and steely as Mr. Eastwood.

Cloris is bad enough without shortening. Consider FLOR instead, a beautiful Spanish name.

Like Sky and Sunshine, this fluffy name from the hippie 1970s has floated back onto the naming radar. It's similarity of Clyde and Claude help to ground it.

Clove is one of a whole tantalizing genre of spice names that might work for a boy. Clovis could be considered a long form.

Even though in the past Clyde may have been identified as half of the infamous outlaw duo with partner Bonnie Parker—especially after the 1967 movie in which he was played by Warren Beatty—Clyde has always had an element of jazzy cool that could overcome all the rest.

This recently coined respelling of Cole darkens its image.