Admirable Boys

Pharaoh

Egyptian, Latin

"ruler"

Kaiser, Rex, Kingsley, and Prince have become increasingly popular in recent years and Pharaoh is one of the more unexpected members of this regal family of names. Used as the title of ancient…

Poet

Word name

Poet is a new entry in both the trendy word and occupational categories as well as a member of the growing group of gender neutral names . A handful of baby boys received the name in the US last…

Sailor

Occupational word name

A word name that has sailed onto birth certificates of both genders, especially since Liv Tyler used it for her son. For boys, Saylor and Sailor are used about equally, but were together given to…

Day

English word name

"the time of light between one night and the next"

Many African tribes have a tradition of naming children for the day or time they were born -- Friday, Afternoon -- a practice finding new life in the Western world as word names become more popular.

Aesop

Greek

There once was a moralizing fabulist who tried to make it as a baby name...and failed.