Six Letter Boy Names

Drover, an ancient occupational surname, is right in step with today's styles and would make a distinctive choice. Drover and brothers are fresh updates of such now-widely-used names as Carter and Cooper.

This friendlier Celtic version of Edmund has an upbeat feel and a good chance of competing with Aidan and Damon sometime soon.

The Welsh form of Martin sounds the same, but has a little spelling twist.

Most famous as a sci-fi action film starring Keanu Reeves, the word matrix actually derives from the Latin for "womb". Max could be a cool nickname.

Manx variant of the Norse name Asketill.

Perfect as an updated namesake for Great-Uncle Neal (or Neil).

Also spelled Kedrick, this name has a double origin as either a variant of the surname name Kendrick, or a spelling spin on the literary Cedric, used by Sir Walter Scott for a character in his 1819 novel Ivanhoe. He likely based it on the legendary name Cerdic, which may be a contracted form of Caractacus. American football player Kedric Golston is a notable bearer.

This tree, famous for the honey produced from its flowers, can be used as a masculine or feminine name.

A cute and sprightly Faroese name from the Old Norse word for "sprout".