Adam

Adam is the beginning of the book. The Hebrew word means earth or of the red clay, a pun baked into Genesis, where the first man is formed from the adamah, the ground itself. The name has been in continuous use across Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions for as long as any name can be said to have been in use, and currently sits almost precisely at the top 100 in the United States. Two firm syllables, no ornament. Adam reads as straightforward, grounded, essentially decent, the kind of name attached to people who show up on time and say what they mean, neither retro nor trendy, simply present.