Atticus

Atticus is a first name with a Roman summer house. The Latin adjective meant "of Attica," the region around ancient Athens, and the name was carried most famously by Titus Pomponius Atticus, the cultured friend and correspondent of Cicero in the first century BCE. Harper Lee borrowed it for the principled lawyer of To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960, and the name began its quiet American rise in the early 2000s. Atticus entered the US top 1000 in 2004 and now sits at 277. Three measured syllables, crisp T's, firm closing S. Bookish, dignified, ethically serious without being stern. A name designed for a porch-swing reader.