Naomi

A widow on the road back to Bethlehem tells her daughter-in-law to turn around and go home, and Ruth replies with the most devoted sentence in the Hebrew Bible — the woman she refuses to leave is Naomi, whose name means "pleasant" or "sweetness." The story has been loved for three thousand years for its portrait of female loyalty, and the name carries that gentleness without any sugar. It also belongs to a strand of Japanese tradition, where it can be written with characters meaning "straight, beautiful." Naomi sits at rank 44 in the United States. Three soft syllables that land like a sigh. Quiet and profoundly graceful.