Boy names that mean dragon
This list is three names long, and it is short on purpose. Dragon names are common in East Asia and almost nonexistent everywhere else, because Europe spent a thousand years casting the dragon as the thing a hero kills rather than the thing a hero is. Every other page that promises you twenty dragon names is counting dragon-slayers.
- RyuRYOOJapanese
Dragon, written 竜 or with the older full form 龍. Other characters read Ryu and mean other things entirely, so the dragon depends on the writing.
- YongYOHNGKorean
In Korean, 용 is very often 龍, dragon. The Chinese name written 勇 is brave instead — one sound, two different wishes.
- Itzcóatleets-KOH-atlNahuatl
Obsidian serpent, from itztli plus cōātl. Serpent rather than dragon, and the closest the Mexica naming tradition comes to one.
Why there are only three
In the Chinese cultural sphere the dragon is auspicious — a bringer of rain, an emblem of the emperor, the sign that a birth year is worth timing. So Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean families name children for it freely. The great Vietnamese example is Long, from the same character 龍, which does not have a page here; Chinese has Long and Rong; Korean uses Yong. Japanese Ryu is the one that has travelled, helped by the fact that a single character makes a complete masculine name.
Europe went the other way. From Beowulf onward the dragon is what a hero faces, so European naming produced no dragons and a great many dragon-killers. George is the famous one, and its family is enormous: Giorgio, Jorge and Jerzy all carry the saint who kills the beast, though the name itself only means farmer. Sigurd kills Fáfnir, Michael throws down the dragon in Revelation, Armenian Vahagn is titled the dragon-reaper, and Welsh Emrys belongs to the story of the red and white dragons under Vortigern's tower. None of them means dragon. All of them are better answers than a stretched etymology.
One honest inclusion and one honest exclusion. Itzcóatl is a serpent, not a dragon, and is listed as such: Mesoamerica had feathered serpents rather than European wyrms, and the difference is real. Names glossed as dragon on other sites — Draco, Drake and the rest — are either surnames from the Latin word or byname spellings, and none of them is on this site. If the dragon is standing in for something else in your head, the meanings index will get you closer than a bad etymology will.