Baby boy names that start with the letter L

Origin: Biblical
Meaning: the father of the beautiful Rachel

2. Lacey

Origin: Norman
Meaning: braid

3. Lachlan

Origin: Gaelic
Meaning: possibly, warlike
Also: Lachie, Lochie

4. Lado

Origin: African American
Meaning: second-born son

5. Laing

Origin: Scottish
Meaning: tall
Also: Lang

6. Laird

Origin: Scottish
Meaning: lord

7. Laken

Origin: Modern American
Meaning: from the lake
Also: Lakin

8. Lakista

Origin: African American
Meaning: unknown

9. Lal

Origin: Indian
Meaning: beloved

10. Lamech

Origin: African American
Meaning: powerful

11. Lambert

Origin: Old German
Meaning: bright land

12. Lamond

Origin: Old Norse/Scottish
Meaning: law man

13. Lamont

Origin: Old French
Meaning: mountain, implying greatness

14. Lancelot

Origin: Old French
Meaning: servant; in Arthurian legend, Lancelot was the bravest of the Knights of the Round Table
Also: Launcelot, Lance

15. Lane

Origin: English
Meaning: path: also used as a girl’s name

16. Langford

Origin: Old English
Meaning: long ford

17. Langley

Origin: Old English
Meaning: long wood or glade

18. Larry

Origin: Old English
Meaning: long wood or glade
Also: Laurence

19. Lars

Origin: Scandinavian
Meaning: crowned with laurel
Also: Laurence

20. Lascelles

Origin: Norman
Meaning: saddle

21. Laser

Origin: Latin
Meaning: a sharp beam of light; the acronym of Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation

22. Latham

Origin: Scandinavian
Meaning: barn

23. Latimer

Origin: English
Meaning: interpreter

24. Laurence

Origin: Latin
Meaning: a man from Laurentium, a town in Italy
Also: Lawrence, Larry, Laurie, Lawrie, Laurens (Dutch form) Laurent (French form) Lars (Scandinavian form)

25. La Vann

Origin: African American
Meaning: the small one

26. Lavaughn

Origin: Modern American
Meaning: wood

27. Lawson

Origin: English
Meaning: son of Lawrence

28. Lawton

Origin: Old English
Meaning: hill town

29. Lazarus

Origin: Greek
Meaning: helped by God
Also: Lazer

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30. Leal

Origin: French
Meaning: faithful; a surname used as a first name
Also: Leale

31. Leander

Origin: Greek
Meaning: man of lion’s strength, from Leon meaning ‘lion’, and Andros meaning ‘man’

32. LeBron

Origin: African American
Meaning: king

33. Lee

Origin: Old English
Meaning: meadow
Also: Leigh

34. Legend

Origin: English
Meaning: history, story, myth

35. Leighton

Origin: Old English
Meaning: meadow town
Also: Layton

36. Leith

Origin: Arabic/Scottish Gaelic
Meaning: lion

37. Lemuel

Origin: Hebrew
Meaning: devoted to God
Also: Lem

38. Lennox

Origin: Scottish Gaelic
Meaning: with many elm trees

39. Leo

Origin: Latin
Meaning: lion
Also: Leon (French form)

40. Leonard

Origin: Old German
Meaning: bold as a lion
Also: Len, Lennie Lenny, Lennard

41. Leopold

Origin: Old German
Meaning: brave people

42. Leroy

Origin: Old French
Meaning: the king
Also: Roy and Lee

43. Lesley

Origin: Scottish Gaelic
Meaning: holly garden; also used as a girl’s name
Also: Leslie

44. Lester

Origin: Old English
Meaning: Roman town or walled city

45. Levi

Origin: Hebrew
Meaning: attached

46. Lewis

Origin: Old German
Meaning: brave warrior
Also: Louis, Lou, Louie, Lew, Lewie, Ludovic (French form), Ludwig (German form), Aloysius (German form), Luigi (Italian form), Luis (Spanish form)

47. Levi

Origin: Hebrew
Meaning: joined in harmony

48. Lex

Origin: Greek
Meaning: defending men
Also: Alexander

49. Leyland

Origin: Old English
Meaning: land lying fallow; surname used as a first name
Also: Leland

50. Liam

Origin: Greek
Meaning: man of lion’s strength, from Leon meaning ‘lion’, and Andros meaning ‘man’
Also: William

51. Lincoln

Origin: Old English
Meaning: town by the lake

52. Lindell

Origin: Old English
Meaning: linden tree valley
Also: Lindall

53. Lindley

Origin: Old English
Meaning: linden tree meadow
Also: Linley

54. Lindsey

Origin: English
Meaning: island of linden trees; also used as a girl’s name
Also: Lindsay (Scottish form)

55. Lineesh

Origin: Indian
Meaning: peaceful

56. Linford

Origin: English
Meaning: linden tree fort

57. Linton

Origin: Old English
Meaning: flax settlement

58. Lionel

Origin: Old French
Meaning: young lion

59. Lisimba

Origin: African American
Meaning: harmed by a lion; also used as a girl’s name

60. Lisle

Origin: Old French
Meaning: an island; a surname used as a first name
Also: Lyle, Lyall

61. Lister

Origin: Old English
Meaning: possibly textile dyer

62. Litton

Origin: Old English
Meaning: settlement on the hill

63. Llewellyn

Origin: Welsh
Meaning: uncertain but could be ‘lion’
Also: Llywelyn

64. Lloyd

Origin: Welsh
Meaning: grey
Also: Floyd

65. Locke

Origin: Old English/Old German
Meaning: woods or fortified place

66. Logan

Origin: Gaelic
Meaning: little hollow; a surname used as a first name

67. Loki

Origin: Scandinavian
Meaning: trickster God

68. Lolonyo

Origin: African
Meaning: love is beautiful

69. Lombard

Origin: Italian
Meaning: somebody from the region of Lombardy, Italy

70. London

Origin: English
Meaning: the capital of England and the UK

71. Lorne

Origin: Scottish
Meaning: a place name used as a first name
Also: Lorn

72. Louie

Origin: French/German
Meaning: famous warrior
Also: Lewis, Louis

73. Lovell

Origin: Old French
Meaning: young wolf
Also: Lovel, Lowell

74. Luca

Origin: Italian
Meaning: light

75. Lucan

Origin: Latin
Meaning: somebody from the historical region of Lucania, Southern Italy

76. Lucian

Origin: Latin
Meaning: Uncertain
Also: Lucien (French form)

77. Ludacris

Origin: African American
Meaning: the name used by an American rapper and actor

78. Ludovic

Origin: French
Meaning: famous warrior
Also: Lewis, Ludo, Ludwig

79. Luigi

Origin: Italian
Meaning: famous warrior
Also: Lewis

80. Luke

Origin: Greek
Meaning: A man from Lucania
Also: Lucas, Luc (French form)

81. Lundy

Origin: Scottish Gaelic
Meaning: marsh

82. Luther

Origin: Old German
Meaning: warrior of the people

83. Lyndon

Origin: Old English
Meaning: linden tree hill
Also: Lynden

84. Lynn

Origin: Old English
Meaning: by the lake or water
Also: Lyn

85. Lysander

Origin: Greek
Meaning: liberator

86. Lytton

Origin: Old English
Meaning: hill settlement

87. Lyulf

Origin: Old English
Meaning: flame wolf, derived from Ligulf, lig, meaning ‘flame’ and wulf meaning ‘wolf’

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Catherine Ball is a freelance journalist who specialises in writing about parenting and health. She has been a journalist for 20 years, writing for a wide range of regional and national publications. She is also mum to 4 children between the ages 3 and 12, so has drawn up many, many lists of baby names over the past few years.

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