Warren

Warren is an old-money name wearing work boots. From the Norman French warrene, a game preserve or rabbit warren, the surname became a first name in the nineteenth century and gathered American weight through President Warren G. Harding, industrialist Warren Buffett, and actor Warren Beatty. It peaked in the 1920s, slipped through the late twentieth century, and is now climbing back into grandpa-chic territory at 262. Two short syllables, the rolling double R, a soft N finish. It reads studious and slightly bespectacled, a name for a patient investor or a patient teacher — anyone who knows something is worth the long arithmetic.