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Middle Names for Boys

Middle names for boys are traditionally family names – father's or grandfather's first name as an honorific, mother's maiden name, or perhaps a first name or surname from further back in the family tree, be it Charles or Lennox.

But increasingly, parents are looking to their son's middle name as a way to honor a hero, symbolize a passion, or indulge a taste for a more unusual name they may not want to put in first place.

Along with Charles and Lennox, other baby boy middle names common as first names in the US Top 1000 include Atlas, Cash, Fox, Henry, Maverick, Orion, River, and Sam. Middle names for baby boys that are more unique include Bravery, Drummer, Lior, and Yale.

More people are giving their baby boys two middle names, too, so one can be a family name and the other something more personal or fanciful. The names here are typically used as middle names for boys. For even more names that work in the middle, browse our master list of Middle Names.

Baylee

Meaning: law enforcer, bailiff

Origin:Spelling variation of occupational name Bailey
5583
Inoa

Meaning: name chant

Origin:Hawaiian
4414
Dayami

Meaning: hay; place name

Origin:Malay, Cuban; "hay; place name"
18873
Sulien

Meaning: sun born

Origin:Welsh
996
Mosley

Meaning: peat bog, mouse clearing

Origin:English place name and surname
4309
Davos The name Davos is primarily used as a boy's ...
Origin:Literary name and place name
7892
Nineveh

Meaning: house of fish

Origin:Biblical place name from Akkadian or Babylonian
8218
Elegy

Meaning: lament

Origin:English word name from the Greek Elegeia
7208
Taja

Meaning: to mention, to name

Origin:Arabic
4066
Origin:Nature name
1649
Caris

Meaning: love; grace, kindness

Origin:Welsh, Greek
3150
Finnick Finnick is of American origin. It is traditi...
Origin:English place name and surname
343
Dahliana

Meaning: Dahl's flower

Origin:Variation of Dahlia, flower name from Swedish surname
8816
Cayo

Meaning: rejoice

Origin:Latin, from the Roman family name Caius
1660
Ala

Meaning: nobility

Origin:Igbo, Polish, diminutive of Alicja
2386
Antinea The meaning of Antinea is 'the queen of Atla...
Origin:French after the Greek name for the Queen of Atlantis
5396
Rainey

Meaning: queen

Origin:Word name or diminutive of Regina, Latin
1804
Zoei Zoei is of Greek and Hebrew origin. The mean...
Origin:From the Greek name Zoe meaning life.
3798
Origin:Combination name of Rose and Lynn
3564
Ptarmigan

Meaning: name of a bird species

Origin:Scots Gaelic
12869