One Syllable Middle Names for Boys

This snappy nickname may remind some of the 1985 Chevy Chase movie of the same name.

One of the most familiar Vietnamese names, yet still hard on the Western tongue.

Many African tribes have a tradition of naming children for the day or time they were born -- Friday, Afternoon -- a practice finding new life in the Western world as word names become more popular.

Spence is occasionally used as a name all on its own and it has more of a sense of completeness than many nickname-names.

The jazziest nickname for Charles.

The whimsical quality of the work of Swiss artist Paul Klee is somehow reflected in his name, although many would mispronounce it to rhyme with key. Say it like clay.

Tree as a first name may have entered the lexicon via Taylor Swift's (female) publicist Tree Paine, but there's no reason Tree can't work for any gender. It's simple, it's nature-connected, it's modern.