Sloane

Sloane lands like a silk glove hitting marble, one sleek syllable with a long drifting vowel. From the Irish surname Sluaghadhan, meaning "raider" or "warrior," it was worn by the London physician Hans Sloane, whose collections seeded the British Museum, and later lent its edge to a certain Chicago daydream-girl in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Once overwhelmingly a surname, it tipped feminine in the 2010s and has climbed steadily into the U.S. top 160s. Cool, architectural, a little untouchable. It suits a girl who will grow up unfazed by almost everything.