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
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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.
Illustration: Emma Winchester
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