Beau

One French syllable that just means beautiful, handsome, fine; Beau entered English through the Regency dandies who called themselves beaux and through Beau Brummell, the early nineteenth-century London arbiter of taste who supposedly took five hours to dress and started the modern suit. It drifted into the American South as a genteel nickname and finally stuck as a first name in the twentieth century, boosted by Beau Bridges, Bo Derek's similar-sounding fame, and a certain drawling charm. It currently ranks 69 and is given to about one in 365 boys. One syllable, one vowel, no hard edges; a name that mostly just smiles at you.