1330+ Boy Names That End in Y

A name you would probably want to use only if it's in your family history. The first syllable moves it miles away from the softer Whitney.

Change one letter of Henry, and you end up with this modern-sounding but dignified boys' name. Henty is an English surname that has been spotted on a few boys recently.

While this has a distinguished male namesake -- astronomer Edmund Halley and his comet -- it still strays too close to the superpopular feminine Hailey family to work for some parents for a boy. Fewer than five baby boys were given the name last year, but that could change as formerly-female names become more acceptable for boys.