User-created list
One-Syllable word names i love
Across 6 pages
of 6
Gull
Celtic
"long-winged swimming birds"
Suggests the salty, windswept air of the seashore.
Lynx
Animal name
One of the fierce new animal names new to name lists, helped by its strong x-ending.
STRONG
KITE
Hawk
Nature name
"hawk, a bird"
Animal names are on the rise, especially more of the aggressive Hawk-Fox-Wolf variety than cute little Bunnys or Robins, and Hawk is a prime example. Hawk is more commonly heard as a surname,…
Mars
Roman mythology
"god of war; male; red planet"
Mars is a name with interesting potential, ticking the boxes as a mythological name, a space name, and a single syllable choice ending in -s. For parents wanting something unexpected, Mars could work…
HOPE
ROSE
Gale
Nature name
Gale for boys is more a storm name than a short form of Abigail. Since Gale has resurfaced as the name of Liam Hemsworth's daring character in The Hunger Games , it has new force for boys.
Way
Way is a short, distinctive masculine name with multiple origin possibilities. It may derive from Old English 'weg' meaning 'path' or 'journey,' could be a shortened form of Wayne, or might originate…
TALE
Yale
Welsh
"fertile upland"
An appellation that couldn't be more Ivy League or sound less Welsh. The name of the University is taken from the surname of college benefactor Elihu Yale. In the movie Manhattan , Yale Pollack is…
GEM
FONT
DIRGE
Champ
English word name
"champion"
Though it sounds like a modern invention, Champ actually has a long history as a first name. It hit the Top 1000 several times just before and after the turn of the 20th Century. Champ Bailey was an…
FLAX
DECK
BET
Hill
English
"someone who lives by a hill"
Simple and down-to-earth, but would probably work best as a middle name.