Names That Mean Falcon

The eleventh brightest star in the sky has a celestial feel, but also could be the name of a commercial airline.

As Bas, it's a popular name in The Netherlands, but Baz, as in director Luhrmann, has potential for independent life too.

Curiously, Australian-born Moulin Rouge director Luhrmann was born neither Sebastian nor Basil, but had the name Mark Anthony on his birth certificate; his nickname arose from his supposed resemblance to a British TV fox puppet named Basil Brush.

Member of a newly chic name genre. Bonus: its relationship to author William Faulkner.

Italian surname most Americans will associate with actress Edie Falco, of Sopranos fame.

Falconer is one choice that has morphed rapidly from outlandish to possible, even attractive, thanks to the fashion for occupational names. And really, if Archer is getting popular and Miller seems normal, why not Falconer?

Famously the father of Osman I, founder of the Ottoman Dynasty. Ertuğrul is derived from the Turkish elements er, meaning "brave man," and tuğrul, a mythical falcon-like bird in Turkish and Hungarian legend, also known as a turul.

Short and strong, with an animal meaning — Baaz would translate well into the English-speaking world.