Genevieve

Genevieve is Paris in name form, borne by the fifth-century patron saint of the city who, according to legend, talked Attila the Hun out of sacking it. Its origins are old Gaulish and contested, often glossed as "tribe woman" or "white wave," but the sound is indisputably elegant, three syllables that trip lightly toward a soft v. It has hovered in the U.S. top 200 for decades and currently sits in the 160s, a favorite of parents drawn to French classics with room to breathe. Regal, literary, luminous. Genevieve is a name with a library and a garden.