Amon

Amon lands compact and resonant, two syllables with the weight of a struck bell. In the Hebrew Bible it belongs to a king of Judah, son of Manasseh, tied to a root suggesting a trusted craftsman or skilled one. The name has traveled oddly well: it echoes the Egyptian god Amun and later surfaces in Germanic and Scandinavian registers, so it arrives both ancient and unexpectedly modern. Short, easy to say, faintly archaeological. Amon suits parents drawn to names that feel dug up rather than invented, grave without heaviness, brief without being slight. An old name still in active use.