925+ Boy Names That End with A

Anglicized form of Ruadh

The Hebrew variations of Biblical Jonah — Yona and Yonah — are unisex today.

The Māori name for Venus as a night or morning star – the brightest celestial object after the sun and moon. A notable bearer is rugby player Tawera Kerr-Barlow.

Ihaia or Īhāia is the Māori form of Isaiah.

This name was borne by Ashoka the Great, a 3rd-century BC emperor of India, and inspired the Star Wars character name Ahsoka.

Although it's a traditional male name in the Middle East, Ata has a more feminine read in the US.

Tchalla — hold the apostrophe — is the original rendering of T'Challa, made famous by Marvel's Black Panther.

Often shortened to Emeka, as in basketball player Emeka Okafor.

Evocative of the great Nobel Prize winning poet Pablo Neruda, real last name Basoalito, who took on the surname Neruda to honor a Czech poet of that name. One of the most poetic boy names starting with N, or with any letter, for that matter.

Kunta Kinte is the hero of the Roots series of books and TV series, which stem from a novel by Alex Haley. The character -- a Gambian man captured and sold into slavery in America -- is a model of strength in the face of terrible cruelty, and an icon of modern American fiction. Though some may find him too iconic to use his name for a child, others will be drawn to the name's strength and cultural ties. The origins of the name Kunta and the character who bears it are shrouded in controversy. Haley claimed to have based him on a historical account, but others have said that he is mostly invented.

These letters begin the 20th chapter of the Quran (surah Ta Ha). A noted bearer is Egyptian writer Taha Hussein, one of the most influential 20th-century Egyptian intellectuals, who was nominated for a Nobel prize in literature fourteen times.

The name Merkaba comes from Merkabah Mysticism, a type of Jewish mysticism that was practiced during the first century.

A wild animal name given to only five boys in 2018. Five boys we're afraid to meet. (And fewer than five every year since then.)