Sarah

Sarah opens Genesis. The Hebrew for princess, it belongs to the wife of Abraham and the matriarch of three world religions, a woman who, in the telling, laughed when she was told she would bear a son in her nineties. The name has been in unbroken use across millennia and across traditions, dominated the American top-ten charts in the 1980s, and has gently settled back to around the top 95. It offers the rare combination of deep religious weight and perfect casual wearability. Two syllables of warmth and sense. Sarah reads as kind, intelligent, slightly dry, the friend who texts you back, who remembers what you said.