One Syllable Names for Boys

A Dutch surname which is given as a full name to a handful of boys in the US each year, possibly as a spelling variant of Kurt.

The historic name for the south-west corner of Wales, deriving from the British tribe of the Demetae.

Like Edmund, but with a double-take. (W is a vowel in Welsh.)

Walter is an old school boys' name that is gently on the rise again. Short forms include Walt (as in Disney) and Wally, but Wat was once commonly used in England as a diminutive of Walter.

This variation of Theodore is familiar here mostly via the great Russian novelist Dostoyevsky. It was also the name of three early tsars of Russia.