Baby boy names beginning with H – with origins and meanings

• Origin: Old Norse
• Meaning: useful
• Also: Hakon

2. Habakkuk

• Origin: Unknown
• Meaning: the name appears only in the Bible, but was later taken up by Methodists in Wales

3. Hadar

• Origin: Hebrew
• Meaning: glory

4. Haddon

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: derived from had means heath, don means hill; a surname used as a first name

5. Hadley

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: field of heather; a surname used as a first name

6. Hadrian

• Origin: Latin
• Meaning: of the Adriatic; dark
• Also: Adrian

7. Hagley

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: enclosed meadow; a surname used as a first name

8. Haig

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: a surname used as a first name

9. Hakeem

• Origin: Arabic
• Meaning: wise

10. Hal

• Origin: German
• Meaning: home leader
• Also: Albert, Halbert, Henry

11. Halbert

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: shining hero
• Also: Albert

12. Hale

• Origin: Old Englsih
• Meaning: unknown, possibly hero, or hollow, nook

13. Hall

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: living in the manor house

14. Hallam

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: the hollow

15. Halstead

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: grounds of the manor

16. Hamal

• Origin: Arabic
• Meaning: lamb

17. Hamilton

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: a flat-topped or treeless hill

18. Hamidi

• Origin: Kenya
• Meaning: praised, admired

19. Hamish

• Origin: Gaelic
• Meaning: Gaelic form of James, which is used mainly in Scotland

20. Hamlet

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: small house; a surname used as a first name
• Also: Hamlett

21. Hamon

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: home

22. Hamzah

• Origin: Arabic
• Meaning: lion
• Also: Hamza

23. Hanford

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: the high ford; a surname used as a first name

24. Hani

• Origin: Arabic
• Meaning: happiness

25. Hannibal

• Origin: Roman
• Meaning: the soldier and statesman from Carthage (247-183 BC) who crossed the Alps with 35,000 men and 37 elephants to rout the Roman armies

26. Hank

• Origin: American
• Meaning: ruler of the home; derived from Henry
• Also: Henry

27. Hanley

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: the high meadow; a surname used as a first name

28. Hans

• Origin: Scandinavian
• Meaning: gift from God
• Also: John, Johannes

29. Harden

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: valley of hares

30. Hardy

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: courageous
• Also: Hardie, Hardey

31. Hargreave

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: field of hares
• Also: Hargreaves, Hargrave

32. Harinder

• Origin: Indian
• Meaning: light brown
• Also: Hari

33. Harley

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: wood or clearing of hares

34. Harlow

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: fortified hill

35. Harold

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: power of an army
• Also: Harry

36. Harrison

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: son of Harry; this is a surname used as a first name

37. Harry

• Origin: German
• Meaning: home ruler
• Also: Henry

38. Harun

• Origin: Arabic
• Meaning: leader, strength
• Also: Haroun

39. Harvey

• Origin: Old French
• Meaning: ready for battle
• Also: Hervey, Harvie

40. Hasan

• Origin: Arabic
• Meaning: good
• Also: Hassan, Hussain, Hussein.

41. Hastings

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: unknown; at the Battle of Hastings in England, King Harold II of England was defeated by the Norman forces of William the Conqueror in 1066

42. Havelock

• Origin: Welsh
• Meaning: the Welsh form of Oliver

43. Hawley

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: hedged field

44. Hayden

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: a hedged valley; a surname used as a first name, the name was adopted in tribute to the composer Haydn
• Also: Haydon

45. Hayley

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: hay field; also used as a girl’s name
• Also: Haley, Haylie

46. Haywood

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: hedged forest
• Also: Heywood

47. Hazlett

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: hazel tree
• Also: Hazlitt and Haslett

48. Heathcliff

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: living by the cliff of heather
• Also: Heathcliffe

49. Hector

• Origin: Greek
• Meaning: hold fast

50. Helaku

• Origin: Native American
• Meaning: sunny day

51. Heli

• Origin: Greek
• Meaning: sun, from the word Helios

52. Henry

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: head of a house
• Also: Harry, Hal, Hank, Hendrik (Dutch Form), Henri (French form)

53. Herbert

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: gleaming army
• Also: Herb, Herbie, Bert, Bertie

54. Hereward

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: army guard

55. Herman

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: soldier
• Also: Hermann, Armand (French form)

56. Hernando

• Origin: Spanish
• Meaning: courageous
• Also: Ferdinand

57. Heron

• Origin: Greek
• Meaning: hero; long-legged wading bird

58. Hesketh

• Origin: Norse
• Meaning: a surname used as a first name

59. Hewett

• Origin: German
• Meaning: little Hugh; a surname used as a first name
• Also: Hewit, Hugh

60. Hezekiah

• Origin: Hebrew
• Meaning: God is strength

61. Hilary

• Origin: Latin
• Meaning: merry, also used as a girl’s name
• Also: Hillary, Hilaire (French form)

62. Hildebrand

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: battle sword

63. Hilton

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: settlement on the hill

64. Hiren

• Origin: Indian
• Meaning: lord of the diamonds

65. Hiroki

• Origin: Japanese
• Meaning: vast tree

66. Holbrook

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: stream near the hollow

67. Holden

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: sunken, deep

68. Hollis

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: holly tree; also used as a girl’s name

69. Holmes

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: island

70. Homer

• Origin: Greek
• Meaning: security, pledge; name of the Greek poet; more often used as a first name in the United States

71. Horace

• Origin: Roman
• Meaning: man of time; from the Roman family Horatius
• Also: Horatio

72. Houghton

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: settlement on the bluff
• Also: Hutton

73. Houston

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: settlement on the hill

74. Howard

• Origin: English
• Meaning: noble watchman; an aristocratic surname which has been used as a first name for many years
• Also: Howie

75. Howell

• Origin: Welsh
• Meaning: eminent
• Also: Howel, Hywel.

76. Hubert

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: bright mind
• Also: Bert

77. Hudson

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: son of Hugh

78. Hugh

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: heart or mind
• Also: Hugo (Latin form) Hew, Huw (Welsh forms), Hughie, Huey, Shug (in Scotland)

79. Humbert

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: bright giant

80. Humphrey

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: peace
• Also: Humphry, Humph

81. Hunter

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: hunter
• Also: Huntley, Huntly

82. Huxley

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: Hugh’s meadow

83. Hyam

• Origin: Hebrew
• Meaning: a man full of life
• Also: Hyman

84. Hyde

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: seasure of land

85. Hywel

• Origin: Welsh
• Meaning: far seeing
• Also: Howell

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