Three Letter Boy Names

This simple unisex Vietnamese name has multiple possible meanings, including "hero", "petal", "brave", "bright", depending on the characters used to write it.

Modern name of the Zoroastrian diety Tishtrya.

Yes, Yew is a tree name, but it's similarity to "you" makes it a potentially problematic choice as a first name.

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.

There were no baby boys named Cay born in the US last year, but there's no reason why there couldn't be, especially with the rise in popularity of the similar Kai as well as the nouveau proper names Cayden, Cayson and so on. Cay Dose was an 18th century German architect and Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld was a German garden historian of the same era.

This zippy nickname would make an interesting update to Joseph.

Classic nickname for Emmanuel, but best left off the birth certificate.