Five Letter Boy Names

Panya is a Russian diminutive that sounds a tad feminine to the Western sensibility.

A Catalan classic that runs the risk of looking like a typo for those not in the know.

Bexen occasionally pops up as a surname and place name in Germany and elsewhere in Mitteleuropa, probably drawn from the German name Beck, which means "brook". As a first name, though, Bexen is probably an American invented name, perhaps a splice of Jaxen, a Jackson variation, and Bexley, a Top 1000 name for girls.

While there were no baby boys named Kayle last year, there were nearly 50 named Kale. The Kayle spelling is borne by several notable male athletes.

This Old English personal name is totally extinct today, but lives on in the surname and place name Lansing, which means "family of Wlanc."