Audrey

You cannot say Audrey without a small amount of black-and-white elegance entering the room. The name descends from the Old English Aethelthryth, noble strength, softened over the centuries into the two-syllable shape we know. Shakespeare gave it to a country girl in As You Like It; the twentieth century gave it to Hepburn, and the name has never quite escaped her silhouette against a Tiffany's window. It currently sits around the top 82 in the United States, steady for two decades. Audrey has the quality of a well-cut coat: restrained, precise, a little wry. It wears well at every age and resists trend without feeling aloof.