A friend has a tradition of naming her kids names ending in "i." 
Until now she has had girls, but now is expeciting a boy.  Her husband
thinks all boys names ending in "i" are girlish, so I want some names
to give her suitable for a boy.  So far I have Avi, Levi and Eli.

Hi Nkamon,

The YeahBaby! baby name search has an option to select the last letter
of the name, and the gender of the child.  When I did a search for
boys names, at least 2 letters, ending in "i", I got 854 results! 
Many of these are Indian or Arabic in origin, but others are not - and
you can narrow the search by choosing origin.  You can also get the
definition.

Example: The Welsh name Kai means alternately earth, wind, fire, or
ocean.  What a kid!

Example: Rudi (German): Wolf

Example: Yuri (various, incuding Russian and Japanese): to hear - variant of George

Here's the URL for the search page: http://baby-names.yeahbaby.com/. 
I suggest you share with your friend and let her play with it to come
up with options that she likes.

I knew of this website because of a previous question that I answered
- but you can find it and others by doing a search of Google for "baby
name finder" or similar terms.

Librariankt

Most of the male names I can think of that end in "i" are Israeli or
Hebrew names. Ari, Omri, Malachi, Mordecai, and Uri (or Yuri) come to
mind.

For a Tolkien fan, there's always Gimli. ;-)

1. Adlai Hebrew Male Refuge of god 
2. Ajani African Male He who wins the struggle 
3. Ali Arabic Male exalted; Muhammad's son-in-law  
4. Amiri African Male prince  
5. Anieli Greek Male Manly 
6. Anoki American Indian Male An actor 
7. Ari Hebrew Male Lion 
8. Avi Hebrew Male Father 
9. Bali Hindi Male Mighty warrior 
10. Bazyli Polish Male form of BASIL - royalty  
11. Denali Not available or unknown Male Great one 
12. Desi Latin Male Form of DESIDERIO - desire 
13. Dimitri Greek Male From Demeter, goddess of the harvest 
14. Dmitri Greek Male Form of DEMITRIUS - lover of the earth 
15. Eli Hebrew Male Elevation 
16. Fahmi Arabic Male understanding  
17. Fathi Arabic Male victory  
18. Fawzi Arabic Male success  
19. Fritzi German Male Form of Frieda - peace, joy 
20. Hamdi Arabic Male praise  
21. Henri German Male Form of HENRY. ruler of the home 
22. Hilmi Arabic Male mild-mannered  
23. Hiroshi Japanese Male generous 
24. Husni Arabic Male beauty  
25. Iggi African Male Only Son 
26. Jabari African Male brave 
27. Jelani African Male mighty 
28. Kai Hawaiian Male sea 
29. Kenyi African Male Male Born after 3+ Girls 
30. Kiyoshi Japanese Male quiet 
31. Levi Hebrew Male Joined To 
32. Lexi Not available or unknown Male Form of ALEXANDER. helper and
defender of mankind
33. Lutfi Arabic Male grace  
34. Magdi Arabic Male glory  
35. Morathi African Male Wise Man 
36. Mordecai Hebrew Male Warrior, Warlike 
37. Naji, Nagi Arabic Male saved 
38. Nuri Arabic Male light 
39. Palti Hebrew Male My Escape, Deliverance 
40. Pasi Not available or unknown Male King 
41. Raffi Hebrew Male Form of RAPHAEL. God Has Healed 
42. Ramzi Arabic Male symbol  
43. Ravi Hindi Male benevolent, sun god 
44. Razi Hebrew Male Secret 
45. Roi French Male king 
46. Rudi Teutonic Male famous wolf 
47. Rusti Not available or unknown Male Red Head 
48. Sabri Arabic Male patience  
49. Sami Arabic Male exalted 
50. Saree, Sari Arabic Male noble  

http://www.babycenter.com/babyname/

One of the most-personable players in baseball is the Twins Torii Hunter.

And we also have Hideki Matsui, Tsuyoshi Shinjo and Hideki Irabu.

There's also Deivi Cruz.

If her husband's a baseball fan, this should help overcome the
objections.  (And as a baby gift my suggestion is -- if they pick one
of these names buy a baseball and send it to the player with a request
for an autograph.)

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

Italian names sometimes end in ?i? too. However, this site might be of
inspirational interest. The ?Advanced Search? tab includes select by
?Last Letter?.

http://www.babynamesworld.com/

Gimli indeed!

Best

The husband is right.  The names are either girlish or un-American. 
What ethnicity is the couple?

Nonsense Nelson -- Mordecai's a name that's archaic but very American.
 Again, going back to baseball, we have Mordecai Brown.

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

Adlai is certainly an American name. Adlai Stevenson was a Democratic
candidate for President of the United States. Twice.

Adlai Stevenson was a loser. Twice.

Would you want to name anybody after a loser?

Wow ... I have done it again!

Dai

It's very common in Wales.

Meaning: Welsh: The beloved, the adored one. Japanese: Great.
 
Origin: Japanese, Welsh 

http://www.babynames.com.au/Search/search-alphabetical-results.asp?Name=Dai

Sometimes I even surprise myself.

Of course, if you wanted to be really imaginative, you could name him Guzzi.

I'm sure that I've seen the name somewhere but I can't remember where.

It's probably Scottish.

Dani   

http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~drodrik/

Jari (Lithmanen)

I would like to amend my comment.  The name is not girly if the
terminating "i" is part of a dipthong (Mordecai would be one example).
 Also, I meant to say ethnic, rather than un-American, which, unless
you live in a Blue State, are not the same.

Ah probonopublico, ?guzzi? -- Moto Guzzi -- ?tis an Italian motorbike
marque. So you don?t get the ?leg over?. I was going to go by the
alias of PinkPanda (my bike?s name and a personal alter-ego name) but
fortunately noticed the name conflict. Don?t think ?she? would have
been best pleased. But yea, good name for a kid.

PP

There's also Dewi (the Welsh form of 'David').
Or Luigi (Italian)
Or Randi.

there is no letter K in the Welsh alphabet so the entry on the name
'Kai' is incorrect.

No 'k' in the Welsh alphabet?

C'mon, I've heard several Welsh people say 'OK'.

PEMBROKE is in wales and thats got a K in it............

Kemlo has got a 'k' in it and he thinks (or thunk) that Flintshire
is/was in England!

I k-i-d- you not. 

Yeah ... 'K for Kemlo' ....

Place names with the letter K have been Anglicised. 

To make the 'K' sound we use the letter C which is always hard there
is no soft C sound in Welsh. The name Kai for example as given earlier
would be spellt 'Cai'

Here is an example of the Welsh alphabet

http://www.madog.org/dysgwyr/gramadeg/gramadeg1.html

Eli
Levi
Antoni
Abishai
Amasai

Areli ---> I really like this one.

Yuri
Uri
Mordecai
Esli
Adlai
Zachari --> ok, this is weak

all these are biblical, btw and i found them here
http://www.biblical-baby-names.com/