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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.

David

Meaning: beloved

Origin:Hebrew
337
Seven Seven is an English origin name. In American...
Origin:English word and number name
1354
Zeppelin

Meaning: zeppelin; flail

Origin:German word name from Slavic
1375
Cap Cap is a masculine name that is rarely used ...
Origin:English word name
4482
Jay

Meaning: jaybird

Origin:Latin
335
Jon

Meaning: God is gracious; or gift of Jehovah

Origin:Variation of John or Jonathan
1305
Yale

Meaning: fertile upland

Origin:Welsh
4784
Will

Meaning: resolute protector

Origin:Diminutive of William
1153
Dane

Meaning: from Denmark

Origin:English
1168
Baird

Meaning: minstrel, poet

Origin:Scottish occupational name
1997
Austen The name Austen is a beautiful gender-neutra...
Origin:Literary surname and shortened form of Augustus
2690
Frost

Meaning: freezing

Origin:English
3740
Origin:English word name
12910
Fleet

Meaning: a group operated under unified control

Origin:English word name
4324
Dart Dart is usually a male name of Old English o...
Origin:English place- and word name
4946
Penn

Meaning: enclosure

Origin:English
878
Hawk

Meaning: hawk, a bird

Origin:Nature name
896
Quill Quill is not only original and memorable but...
Origin:Irish, diminutive of Quillan or Quiller; also English word name
1125
Sabbath

Meaning: a day of religious observance and abstinence from work

Origin:English word name
6430
Bravo The meaning of Bravo is ‘excellent’ and ‘cou...
Origin:Italian word name
6868