Boho Boy Names

Short and to-the-point, it turns an ancient biblical name into a friendly cowboy.

Writer Anne Tyler gave this apt name to the hippie child in her novel Amateur Marriage, but she wasn't the first -- it was also used by the Puritans. Today it would be quite a loaded choice.

When Kate Hudson named her second son Bingham and announced that she would be calling him Bing, it put this zingy nickname name out on the table. Before that, there was only one, further nicknamed Der Bingle -- and he was really Harry Lillis Crosby.

One of the simplest, most down-to-earth yet evocative of the word names, which could work — especially as a middle.