Ember

Ember glows the color of a hearth at midnight, the last orange breath of a log that has done its work. The word comes from Old English aemyrge and has only recently been embraced as a given name, helped along by a wave of nature-inspired vocabulary picks and a Pixar short by the same title. It has climbed sharply into the top 140, now at 137 for girls. Two syllables, a soft opening M and a humming close, easy to say and easy to remember. Warm, elemental, a little bit witchy in the loveliest way. A name that holds its light quietly.