Baylor

Texas sunshine and a university quad, Baylor began as an English occupational surname for a bailiff, from the Old French baillier, to deliver or have charge of. Judge R.E.B. Baylor gave his name to the Waco university in 1845, and the name has since drifted into given-name territory with that particular southern-preppy confidence. It joined the U.S. top 1000 in 2015 and now crosses gender lines with ease, worn by boys and girls in roughly equal measure. Two syllables, the BAY opening wide, the R grounding it. Baylor sounds like a kid who knows every dog on the block.