Rory

Rory comes rolling in from Ireland, an Anglicized form of Ruaidhrí, "red king," borne by the last high king of Ireland in the twelfth century. For centuries it was emphatically a boy's name, but Gilmore Girls turned Rory into a daughter in 2000, and the American charts followed. It now lives comfortably as unisex, with both sides of the aisle holding ground in the top 300. Two syllables with a rolling R and a long E that lifts at the end. Rory is the girl with a library card and the boy with a fiddle. Spry and untameable.