Ethan

Ethan Allen led the Green Mountain Boys across the New Hampshire Grants in 1775 and captured Fort Ticonderoga before breakfast, which is about the energy the name has carried ever since. It comes from the Hebrew Eitan, strong or enduring, a word used in the Psalms to describe rivers that never run dry. Ethan Frome gave it a New England chill; Ethan Hunt gave it a cinematic pulse. It sat in the American top twenty for most of the 2000s and remains a steady favorite. Two syllables with a soft th hinge, a name that lands like a handshake. Biblical, pioneering, and quietly tough.