Boho Boy Names

  1. Gower
    • Origin:

      Welsh
    • Meaning:

      "pure"
    • Description:

      This Old Welsh name associated with blacksmiths has never caught on, but it has the right two-syllable occupational feel to qualify for revival. Gower Champion was a successful midcentury dancer, choreographer and director on the Broadway stage, in films and on TV.
  2. Trout
    • Origin:

      Word name
    • Description:

      Yes, nature lovers are starting to name their children after all forms of life, including fish, but consider carefully before you cast your line into these tease-infested waters.
  3. Hiawatha
    • Origin:

      Iroquois
    • Meaning:

      "he makes rivers"
    • Description:

      Journalist Hiawatha Bray is a singular contemporary bearer of this name of a Native-American leader immortalized in a Longfellow poem.
  4. Land
    • Origin:

      Word name or diminutive of Landon
    • Meaning:

      "long hill"
    • Description:

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