Baby boy names beginning with Y – with origins and meanings
On the search for baby name ideas for a boy that start with the 25th letter of the alphabet? We’ve got some yummy suggestions, along with their origin and meaning
Are you honing your newborn baby list? Use our list of boys names beginning with Y with their origins and meanings to find out of your lad could be a Yakir, York or Yves
1. Yagil
- Origin: Hebrew
- Meaning: rejoice
2. Yakir
- Origin: Hebrew
- Meaning: beloved, honoured
3. Yale
- Origin: Old English
- Meaning: fertile moorland
4. Yarb
- Origin: English Gypsy
- Meaning: fragrant herb
5. Yarrow
- Origin: Old English
- Meaning: rough stream
6. Yehudi
- Origin: Hebrew
- Meaning: Jewish
7. Yobachi
- Origin: African American
- Meaning: pray to God
8. Yorick
- Origin: Scandinavian
- Meaning: farmer
9. York
- Origin: Old English
- Meaning: boar settlement; a cathedral city in United Kingdom
- Also: Yorke
10. Yoshito
- Origin: Japanese
- Meaning: good and lucky man
11. Yuri
- Origin: Russian
- Meaning: farmer; light of God
- Also: George
12. Yves
- Origin: Old French
- Meaning: yew tree
About our author Catherine Ball
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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