Tyler

Tyler started as an occupational surname in medieval England, the person who laid roof tiles, a trade honest enough to become a family name and, centuries later, a president: John Tyler, the tenth. It broke into first-name territory in the 1980s and exploded in the 1990s, cresting in the top 10 before easing to its current rank of 191. Fight Club gave us Tyler Durden; the Creator is just Tyler. Two syllables, straightforward, unimpeachably American. Once firmly masculine, it's become increasingly unisex. Tyler is the jeans of first names, dependable, comfortable, and somehow always appropriate.