Harlow

Harlow has Hollywood in its bloodstream. An Old English place name meaning "army hill" or "rock heap," it spent centuries as a quiet surname before Jean Harlow, the platinum-blonde screen siren of the 1930s, gave it cinematic glamour. Nicole Richie chose it for her daughter in 2008, and American parents followed, taking the name to both boys' and girls' charts and now settling it near 293. Two syllables that glide, HAR-loh, with a long open vowel at the end. It feels black-and-white and modern at once—chic, faintly moody, a little smoky. A name that photographs well.