Two Syllable Boy Names

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.

Terah goes some distance to making this forgotten Biblical name more friendly. The Old Testament Terach was the father of Abraham.

A clan name in Ursula Le Guin's Annals of the Western Shore combining sounds that are currently very fashionable. It's not beyond the realms of possibility that it could make it into baby name territory.

An alternative transcription of Hebrew Benaiah, currently among the Top 50 boys' names in Israel.

Nahome is an Amharic boy name used in Ethiopia, meaning "compassionate". Nahome is the name of an Old Testament prophet, spelled Nahum in Hebrew. He wrote about the end of the Assyrian Empire, and its capital city, Nineveh, in a vivid poetic style.