Boys' Names Ending in -a Part 1

California

Place name

The sidekick in a John Wayne western.

Chelsea

Place name, English

"landing place for chalk or limestone"

Chelsea for a boy? Yes — and we've got two maleberry Chelseas to prove it (one of whom even wrote a blog for us about his experience)! Boy Chelseas would more likely be named for the British football…

Cinna

Latin, family name

In The Hunger Games series, Cinna is the influential costume designer for Katniss. In ancient Rome, one Cinna was the father-in-law of Julius Caesar and another was a conspirator against Caesar.

Columba

Latin

"dove"

While the original Irish St. Columba was male, the modern Irish variation Colm or Scottish Callum would be more appropriate for a contemporary boy. We can, however, imagine Columba as a rhythmic and…

Hazaia

Hazaia is an unusual masculine name with multiple potential origins. It may represent a creative variation of Hezekiah, a biblical name meaning 'God strengthens,' or could relate to the Hebrew word…

Cuba

Place-name

"abundant fertile land; great place"

Soul singer Cuba Gooding and his actor son of the same name put this unexpected geographical name on the map for boys, but it has a longer history of use than you might expect. Deriving from the…

Hoshea

Hebrew

"salvation"

Variant transcription of Hosea, the original name of Joshua in the Old Testament.