Magnus

Magnus is simply the Latin word for great, and it traveled north with Charlemagne — Carolus Magnus — where Scandinavian kings adopted the epithet as a given name. Magnus I of Norway and Sweden bore it in the eleventh century, and a long line of Nordic monarchs and saints followed. It has returned to fashion in English-speaking countries over the past two decades, helped by the chess champion Magnus Carlsen and a general appetite for short, strong Scandinavian names. Two syllables, MAG-nus, a confident opening and a clean close. The name reads unfussy and formidable, a boy's name built from a single large idea.