Baby boy names beginning with W – with origins and meanings

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: to wade

2. Wade

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: ford

3. Wainwright

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: maker of wheels for carts

4. Wagner

• Origin: Old Dutch
• Meaning: driver or charioteer

5. Wake

• Origin: Norman
• Meaning: watchful

6. Waldemar

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: famous ruler
• Also: Valdemar

7. Waldo

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: king

8. Walker

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: walking or inspecting the woods

9. Wallace

• Origin: Scottish
• Meaning: a Welshman; a name in honour of Sir William Wallace, the Scottish patriot
• Also: Wallis, Wal, Wally

10. Walter

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: army leader
• Also: Walt, Watty, Wat, Walther (German form)

11. Walton

• Origin: Anglo-Saxon
• Meaning: fortified town

12. Wamu

• Origin: Japanese
• Meaning: calm; dream

13. Waqar

• Origin: Arabic
• Meaning: dignity

14. Ward

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: guard

15. Warne

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: cold marsh

16. Warner

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: army guard

17. Warren

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: watchman

18. Warwick

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: buildings near the weir

19. Washington

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: hunting town; the capital city of the US

20. Wasim

• Origin: Arabic
• Meaning: attractive

21. Waverley

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: meadow of trees

22. Wayne

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: wagon builder or driver

23. Webb

• Origin: English/Sottish
• Meaning: weaver of cloth

24. Wendel

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: one of the Wend people
• Also: Wendell

25. Wentworth

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: Paleman’s settlement

26. Wesley

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: Western field; used in honour of the Methodist brothers John and Charles Wesley
• Also: Wes

27. Whitaker

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: White acre
• Also: Whittaker

28. Whitman

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: white man

29. Whitney

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: white island

30. Wilbert

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: high-born

31. Wilbur

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: resolute

32. Wilfred

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: aspiring to peace
• Also: Wilfrid, Wilf

33. Willard

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: strong desire

34. William

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: strong helmet
• Also: Will, Willie, Bill, Billy, Liam (Irish form), Wilhelm (German form)

35. Willoughby

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: willow farm

36. Wilmot

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: resolute protector

37. Wilson

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: son of William

38. Wilton

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: settlement by the well

39. Windsor

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: loading point on a river

40. Winslow

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: friend’s hill

41. Winston

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: joyful stone; often used in honour of Sir Winston Churchill

42. Winter

• Origin: Modern British
• Meaning: winter, the season

43. Winthrop

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: friend’s village

44. Winton

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: friend’s settlement

45. Witt

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: fair or white

46. Wolf

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: wolf
• Also: Wolfe

47. Woodrow

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: dwellings by the wood

48. Woodward

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: guardian, protector

49. Worth

• Origin: American
• Meaning: riches, wealth

50. Wyman

• Origin: Anglo-Saxon
• Meaning: man of war

51. Wyn

• Origin: Welsh
• Meaning: white
• Also: Wynn

52. Wyndham

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: hamlet by the winding way
• Also: Windham

53. Wynn

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: friend; also used as a girl’s name
• Also: Wynne

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