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Balta
Balta is a concise masculine name with varied cultural connections. It has roots in several traditions, including Baltic origins where it relates to the word for 'white' or 'shining.' In Spanish…
Baltasar
Baltasar is a masculine name of ancient Babylonian origin, representing a variation of Balthazar, one of the three Magi or Wise Men who visited Jesus according to Christian tradition. The name…
Baltasaru
Baltasaru is an uncommon masculine name with multicultural origins, appearing to be a variant of Balthasar or Balthazar. These names trace back to Babylonian origins and gained prominence as one of…
Baltazar
Spanish, Hebrew, Akkadian
"Baal protects the King"
This variation spelling of Balthasar is most often used in South America. Argentinian football star Joan Figallo recently called his son Baltazar.
Balthasar
Greek
"God protects the king"
Balthasar was one of the biblical Three Kings who visited the infant Jesus, also used by Shakespeare and in the oil-rich Getty family; offbeat and intriguing. Balthazar is another, equally…
Balthazar
Phoenician
"Baal protects the King"
This evocative name of one of the Three Wise Men of the Orient, also spelled Balthasar, may finally be ready for prime time. Balthazar, Melchior and Caspar were the Magi who brought gifts of gold,…
Alberic
Germanic
Variant of Alberich
Balton
Modern invented name
Dalton with a B. The original is better.
Balzac
French surname
Dashing middle name choice for admirers of the French author.
Balzo
Italian
"to leap, bounce, jump"
A high energy Italian word name.
Bamboo
Word name
Bamboo is a plant name that you might want to save for the zoo's name-the-panda contest. It was used for a starbaby in 2000, though, the rapper Big Boi.
Banan
Irish
"white"
Unusual and attractive entry to the growing Irish name canon.
Bancrofft
Bancrofft is an uncommon masculine name of English origin, derived from a surname that originally referred to a person from 'bean croft' (a small bean field). This spelling variation with the double…
Bancroft
English
"field of beans, dweller near the bean farm"
An upper-crusty-sounding name with humble origins, Bancroft is a surname and a place name that may appeal to those who like Banks and Banner but prefer something rarer (or who've found Bancroft in…
Bandit
Word or occupational name
"outlaw, thief"
We hesitate to call Bandit an occupational name, any more than Rogue or Vandal are occupational names, yet its use by one of the bandmembers of My Chemical Romance (for his daughter: we're thinking…
Bane
Bane is a strong masculine name with multiple origins. In English, it traditionally means 'cause of distress or death,' deriving from Old English 'bana' meaning 'killer' or 'slayer.' In Slavic…
Banebridge
Banebridge is an extremely rare masculine name that appears to have originated as a surname. It likely combines the elements 'bane' (from Old English, possibly meaning 'slayer' or referring to a bane…
Banfield
Banfield is an English surname-turned-first name with Old English origins, derived from 'bean' meaning 'bean' and 'feld' meaning 'field'. Originally a topographic surname for someone who lived near a…
Bangkok
Place-name
This is one place-name we'd put off-limits, for obvious reasons.
Adlai
Hebrew
"God is just"
Adlai is an Old Testament name long associated with 1950's liberal presidential candidate Stevenson, who was named after his grandfather, who was Grover Cleveland's vice president in the nineteenth…