Rosie

Rosie smells like a kitchen garden in June, all dog roses and warm brick. A diminutive of Rose, itself drawn from the Latin rosa, the name carries the cheerful muscle of Rosie the Riveter, whose red bandana rolled up the sleeves of a nation in 1943. British parents have kept the name bright through the decades, and American families are catching up; it currently sits in the low 300s and climbing. One breezy syllable followed by a sigh, it feels like a name that answers the door with flour on its hands and a laugh ready to go.