Baby boy names beginning with B – with origins and meanings

• Origin: Arabic
• Meaning: unprecedented, amazing, admirable, unique

2. Bailey

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: bailiff, steward; also used as a girl’s name

3. Baird

• Origin: Celtic
• Meaning: minstrel

4. Baldric

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: bold rule
• Also: Baudric

5. Baldwin

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: bold friend

6. Baliant

• Origin: Hungarian
• Meaning: strong and healthy

7. Baptist

• Origin: Latin, Greek
• Meaning: to dip in water

8. Barnaby

• Origin: Hebrew
• Meaning: son of consolation
• Also: Barnabas, Barney, Barny

9. Barry

• Origin: Irish
• Meaning: spear
• Also: Barrie

10. Bartholomew

• Origin: Hebrew
• Meaning: son of Talmai
• Also: Bart, Barty and Bat

11. Basil

• Origin: Greek
• Meaning: kingly

12. Beau

• Origin: French
• Meaning: beautiful or handsome

13. Beck

• Origin: Old Norse
• Meaning: small brook or stream

14. Beckham

• Origin: English
• Meaning: village by the stream; surname of David Beckham

15. Ben

• Short form of Benjamin (see below)

16. Benedict

• Origin: Latin
• Meaning: blessed
• Also: Bennet and Benedick

17. Benjamin

• Origin: Hebrew
• Meaning: son of the south
• Also: Ben, Benny and Bennie

18. Bentley

• Origin: English
• Meaning: sweet person; a prestigious car brand

19. Bergren

• Origin: Swedish
• Meaning: mountain stream

20. Bernard

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: brave bear
• Also: Bernie and Barney

21. Bertram

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: bright raven
• Also: Bert, Bertie, Bertrand (French form)

22. Bharat

• Origin: Sanskrit
• Meaning: universal monarch, the Hindi name for India

23. Bhaskar

• Origin: Sanskrit
• Meaning: the sun

24. Billy

• Origin: English/Old German
• Meaning: helmet, protector; short form of William

25. Björn

• Origin: Old Norse
• Meaning: bear

26. Blair

• Origin: Gaelic
• Meaning: a plain, field, meadow
• Also: Blaire

27. Blaise

• Origin: French
• Meaning: someone from the Blois region of France
• Also: Blasé, Blaze

28. Blake

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: dark-complexioned

29. Bonamy

• Origin: French
• Meaning: good friend

30. Boniface

• Origin: Latin
• Meaning: doer of good

31. Boris

• Origin: Russian/Slavic
• Meaning: wolf; short; glory in battle

32. Boyd

• Origin: Gaelic
• Meaning: yellow-haired

33. Bradley

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: broad meadow
• Also: Brad

34. Brantly

• Origin: Unknown, probably Old Norse
• Meaning: sword, fiery torch
• Also: Brantley

35. Brendan

• Origin: Gaelic
• Meaning: prince
• Also: Brandon, Brandin, Brenden

36. Brennan

• Origin: Gaelic
• Meaning: sorrow

37. Bret

• Origin: Old French
• Meaning : from Breton, a region in France
• Also: Brett

38. Brian

• Origin: Celtic
• Meaning: strong
• Also: Bryan, Brien, Brion

39. Brice

• Origin: Celtic
• Meaning: unknown
• Also: Bryce

40. Brigham

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: homestead by a bridge

41. Broderick

• Origin: Gaelic
• Meaning: brother

42. Brook

• Origin: Irish
• Meaning: water, small stream; also used as a girl’s name
• Also: Brooke, Brooks

43. Bruce

• Origin: Old French
• Meaning: from the brushwood thicket

44. Bruno

• Origin: German
• Meaning: brown

45. Bryn

• Origin: Welsh
• Meaning: a hill
• Also: Brin, Brynmor

46. Buck

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: stag, dashing young man

47. Buddy

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: friend, brother

48. Burhan

• Origin: Arabic
• Meaning: proof, evidence

49. Burl

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: bearer of the cup

50. Burn

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: stream, brook
• Also: Burne, Bourn, Bourne, Byrne

50. Burton

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: a fortified farmstead
• Also: Burt

51. Byron

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: a barn

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