Stella

"Stella!" — Marlon Brando bellowing up a New Orleans staircase in 1951 gave the name a permanent theatrical charge, but the Latin word for "star" was already doing fine on its own. Sir Philip Sidney coined it as a literary name in his sixteenth-century sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella, and Jonathan Swift later used it for the woman he loved for thirty years. After drifting out of fashion in the mid-twentieth century, Stella came roaring back in the 2000s and now sits at rank 49 in the United States. Two syllables, two bright vowels, one silver consonant in the middle. Celestial, vintage, and a little dramatic.