Names Ending in D for Boys

The capital of Saudi Arabia makes a difficult first name.

In ancient Mesopotamia, Dumuzid was the god of shepherds and fertility and husband of the goddess Inanna. Tammuz, the Semitic transcription of the name, is more likely to be used today.

Associated with the "Star Trek" commander of the USS Enterprise.

In its native Germany, Gerhard was very popular a hundred years ago and is now rather old-fashioned. It isn't much used by English speakers either, but has a certain clunky charm about it.

This may be a cymricized form of the Anglo-Saxon (male) name Eldred, and/or from ael "brow" + trydd"third".

An attractive, preppy English surname, the exact meaning of which is unknown. The ford component refers to a shallow part of a stream. Sed may be connected to the Middle English word sēd, relating to seeds, or perhaps the Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to sit."

Introduced to the baby name lexicon by Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick when they used it as the middle name for their daughter Penelope. As they've proven, it's a nouveau way to honor a Scott.

With its ties to tranquil Walden Pond, and harmonious meaning, this could be a modern virtue name.

A fateful and/or spiritual word name that occasionally appears on the charts.