Five Letter Boy Names

A unisex Igbo name with a glorious meaning, perfect for a long-awaited baby.

Drago sounds fierce but has a sweet meaning. It may be used as a standalone name or as a short form of other Slavic names beginning with the element dragu "dear", such as Dragoljub or Dragomir.

Sharp and sleek, it refers to Benjamin being compared to a wolf in Genesis.

Gerard, Gerry, and Jerry may be so far out they may never come back in the U.S., but Jerry-equivalent Jurre is a Top 100 name in The Netherlands.

Famously Tupac Shakur's middle name.

A strong and simple Arabic name with an international sound.

Before Leif, there was Leifr.

Peder? You mean Peter? You'll have to do a lot of spelling and explaining of this one.

Chord may be considered a variation of the cowboy-cool name Cord, or an independent musical name. Actor Chord Overstreet, of Glee fame, introduced this name to many American parents.

Loman is one of those rare names that is at once simple and very unusual, with fewer than five baby boys given the name in the US in the most recent year.

Jurij is how George is translated into Slovene and Sorbian — the latter of which is a West Slavic minority language spoken in parts of East Germany.

It's a hat, it's a race, and it's even been known to be a name. In Britain, it would be pronounced darby.

Many Welsh rivers make great baby names, like Aled and Teifi. Artro is a particularly appealing one, combining fashionable sounds of Arthur and O-ending boy names.

A more authentic -- and difficult -- version of Sean.