Five Letter Boy Names

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

If you prefer the woods to the ocean, you'll want to name your son (or daughter) Beech instead of Beach.

In Arabic, hilal is the word for the crescent moon that marks the beginning of the month on the Islamic calendar. Hilal is a common girl name in Turkey, but is typically masculine in Arabic.

Inventive nickname option, but with built-in pronunciation problems.

Popular in its native country, also used in Serbia and Macedonia as Borko.

A name with a lot of panache, with ties to the great Spanish Mannerist painter El Greco--though his real name was DOMENICOS.