Penelope

For twenty years she sat at her loom, weaving by day and unraveling by night, refusing the suitors who swarmed her hall — Homer's Penelope is patience rendered as a verb. The Greek Penelopeia may come from a word for "weaver" or from the bird penelops, a kind of duck, and scholars have been charmed and puzzled by both for millennia. Three syllables of unhurried music: Peh-NEL-oh-pee. After decades of quiet, the name returned to the American top 100 in the 2010s and now rests at rank 28. Literary, mythological, and oddly modern — a name with its own gravity.