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Dutch Baby Names for Boys

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Popular baby names for boys in The Netherlands range from familiar English nicknames such as Tom and Nick to Latinate choices like Guido and Adrianus to fashionably short European baby names like these.

  • Abel

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    Abel, the name of Adam and Eve's unfortunate younger son, compensates with positive connotations: capable, competent, ready and willing. Abel has literary connections to the novels of Dickens an... Read More 

  • Bart

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    Permanent property of that devilish little Simpson kid.  Read More 

  • Bas

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    Bas is a fashionable name in its own right in the Netherlands, where it's been in the Top 10. Used throughout Europe, it may have a future here as a straightforward-but-charming nickname name. Ba... Read More 

  • Boaz

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    Now that such Old Testament patriarchs as Elijah and Moses fill the playground, Boaz seems downright baby-friendly, having more pizzazz than many of the others, perhaps as a successor to Noah. A n... Read More 

  • Bram

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    Bram has an unusual measure of character and charm for a one-syllable name; it started as a hipper-than-Abe diminutive of the biblical Abraham, but is also an independent Irish and Dutch name, made... Read More 

  • Cas

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    This short-but-strong name is popular for boys in The Netherlands. While Cass is usually a female name in the U.S., it feels just as right for boys. Read More 

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  • Coen

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    Like many short forms now popular as full names in the Netherlands, Coen -- also spelled Koen -- originated as the diminutive of the more old-fashioned Coenraad, the Dutch Conrad. May be confused ... Read More 

  • Daan

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    Dan with a little something extra.  Read More 

  • Dion

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    In ancient Greece, a student of Plato; in modern America, a cool guy.  Read More 

  • Fabian

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    Ancient name of saint and pope best known via a 1960s rocker. Definite cool potential today. Read More 

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