Gideon

Gideon means hewer or one who cuts down, and the biblical Gideon earned the name by sneaking into camp with three hundred men and a clatter of torches and trumpets, defeating the Midianite army without drawing a sword. The Gideon Bible placed in hotel drawers carries his name into every traveler's room. Three syllables move with an Old Testament solemnity, softened by the gentle d at the center. American parents have warmed to it steadily over the past two decades, and it now sits in the low 330s. Gideon feels stalwart, literary, and just a bit underdog-hero.