Boy Dog Names That Start With B

Dutch form of Baldwin

Norwegian city name heard much more often as a last name than a first.

One way to encourage some cheers for your little one, but not recommended.

Bowman has a lot of winning ingredients: an occupational surname, a cool "Bo" sound, and an archery-related meaning.

Sounds too much like buxom.

Unlike the feminine Blanca, this name for some reason seems to put more emphasis on the "blank" aspect.

Buckingham is an English surname, denoting one's ancestors lived in Buckinghamshire county. The place name was firstly Buccingaham, composed of the components inga, meaning "people of," and hamm, the Old English word for "water meadow." Bucc refers to an Anglo-Saxon chieftain named Bucca, who, in theory, settled the land.

An English surname derived from the French place name Beauvais, which in turn comes from the name of an ancient Gaulish tribe, the Bellovaci.

Diminutive of Welsh Maredudd, the original (masculine) form of Meredith.

A name that's unusual in that changing the i to a y -- as in Byrd -- makes it more masculine.

A rowdy name nobody ever heard of, till Nick Nolte gave it to his son.

This surname-name comes with some great connotations: Addie Ballou the American feminist, Kurt Ballou — guitarist with the band Converge, or Adin Ballou — abolitionist and pacifist. It has a trendy, whimsical sound that sets it apart from more traditional surnames like Cooper, Hunter, and Archer and puts it more in the camp of the softer international names like Aaru, Bayou, and Finlo.

A slow and sultry southern choice that's definitely cool for babies of either gender.

Dora's monkey best friend, and possibly the name of your cat.

What it really means: you're a "Casablanca" fan.

This one's cutting right to the chase, but with such names as Justice and Peace on the rise, why not? And we guarantee your seven-year-old son will love it, though your 17-year-old, maybe not so much. Could be used as a middle name, as Talisa Soto and Benjamin Bratt did.

Bachelor feels more like a prediction than a name.

Properly spelt Bình in Vietnamese, this is a very popular name for both sexes. The pronunciation is usually Anglicized as "BIN", but the middle vowel is more like the U in "burn".