Lawson

Lawson comes from the English patronymic tradition, literally son of Law, a medieval shortening of Lawrence. It has the clean geometry of a surname turned first name, two crisp syllables with a hint of legal-pad seriousness softened by that open aw. Ranked around 415 in the U.S., Lawson rides the wave of surname-style boys' names, keeping company with Carson, Jackson, and Hudson without quite echoing them. There is something unfussy about it, a name that could belong to a rancher, a guitarist, or a kid building forts in the yard. It sounds grown before it needs to be.