Two Syllable Names for Boys

Rawdon as a first name is closely associated with the literary character Colonel Rawdon Crawley from Thackeray's Vanity Fair. The Rawdon character, who has a son named after him and called Rawdy, marries antiheroine Becky Sharp. He's handsome, dashing...and ill-fated.

Rawdon

Leni

Oakwell is an English name, most often used as a surname. 

An alternative to the popular Oakley with a hint of cool Wells and classic Maxwell.

Oakwell

A modern name in Norway, where it first made the Top 100 in 2013. Viljar combines the Old Norse elements for the words "will, intent" and "warrior", creating this new name with a powerful meaning. In nearby Estonia, this name has a different origin: it is a masculine form of the more common female name Vilja, which can mean intent or grain.

Viljar

Not to be confused with the name Amos, Amoz is a separate Hebrew name, borne by the father of the Prophet Isaiah, and also theorized to be the brother of Amaziah, King of Judah. It can also be written as Amotz. 

Amoz

Also spelled as Jaspreet, this name has the lovely meaning of "famous joy", "glorious love" or "praise joy and love". A unisex choice used fairly evenly across genders in India, one notable bearer is cricketer Jasprit Bumrah.

Jasprit

An unusual name form Greek mythology, Pyrrhus is an alternative name for Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles. In this case, Pyrrha was the name of the woman Achilles once disguised himself as, and so it was passed on to his son. 
 
Borne by a king of Greece in the third century BC, Pyrrhus is associated with the idea of a Pyrrhic victory, that is, one that is achieved by too greater loss to the winner for it really to be considered successful. Still, with its cool, blazing meaning and mythological ties, Pyrrhus might appeal, and it could make an edgy yet playful choice for a cat (similar in sound to puss and in appearance to purr).

Pyrrhus

Dishawn

Sehraj

Khenan

Denon

Rajay

Krosby

Daelynn

Smaran

A new entry into the US data for 2025, Xero, with its cool X- initial, was chosen for 5 boys in a recent count. It may be considered a respelling of Zero, to get that edgy sound without associating it too heavily with emptiness and nothingness. 
 
Alternatively, it could be a spin on the Greek and Persian Xerxes ("ruler over heroes") or a variation of several Galician names, including Xeraldo ("power of the spear"), Xerome ("sacred name"), or Xairo ("he shines").

Xero

Nehaan

Ripkin

Chantel

Kindell

Two-syllable boy names are the most prevalent in the complete lexicon of male names in Anglophone cultures, with more than 15,000 choices on this complete list of every boys' name on Nameberry with two syllables.

, with the top two boy names Liam and Noah having two syllables each. Other common choices include Henry, Jackson, and Ethan.

 with two syllables include Orson, Roscoe, and Altan. Click here for a hand-curated list of the 

full list of over 15,000 two-syllable male names

, ordered by their current rank on Nameberry.

Two-Syllable Boy Names with meanings, origins, and popularity, including top two syllable names for boys and unique boy names with 2 syllables. (Page 1522)

15,000+ Two-Syllable Boy Names