Dog Names That Start With B

A common name for cats with boot-like markings on their feet. In the same vein: Mittens, Socks.

Beasley is a fashionable yet undiscovered surname name that is particularly well-suited for baby girls. Bea is a possible nickname.

Pronounced Bah-hah, this name of the Mexican peninsula attached to California makes for an out-of-the-ordinary possibility.

Breton is the term for the people and language of Brittany, a region of northern France with a distinct culture. Breton also might be thought of as a trendy modern invention, taking the midcentury surfer boy Bret or Brett and adding the current favorite boy's name ending -on and turning it into a name all its own. Bretton is a variation.

Might be an honorific for novelist Saul Bellow, although bellowing is not the gentlest of sounds. Consider Saul instead.

We don't see this one making it unless you have a compelling family reason.

Wildly optimistic -- and unrealistic -- choice.

The name of a river that flows through Texas into the Gulf of Mexico is given to a dozen or so baby boys and a handful of girls each year. The name derives from Spanish río de los Brazos de Dios ("river of the Arms of God").

Woody Allen used this name for his daughter to honor jazz hero Sidney Bechet -- and it could work for a boy as well.

Surname of a character in Henry James' What Maisie Knew.

A name heard in the Jewish community and another addition to the color name list.

Deceptively close to Bernardo, but suaver.

Cool tropical Latin word name.

Writer James Baldwin could make this an inspirational choice for a child of either sex.

Rhythmic and enchanting.