Maeve

The warrior queen of Connacht, who in the Táin Bó Cúailnge launches a war over a prize bull and drives her armies across Ireland in a chariot. Maeve, from the Irish Medb, means she who intoxicates, the same root as mead. She is the closest thing Irish myth has to a Helen of Troy, only angrier and better armed. The name stayed quietly Irish for most of the twentieth century, then climbed briskly in the U.S. after 2010 as parents looked for short, strong, vowel-heavy girls' names with ancient teeth. It currently ranks 75 and is given to about one in 521 girls. One syllable, one queen, no apologies.