Carson

Carson is a Scottish and northern English surname of uncertain early origin, possibly from an Anglo-Norman settler family, and the frontier scout Kit Carson lent it a distinctly American frontier flavor in the nineteenth century. As a first name it took off in the 1990s alongside other surname-style boy names, entered the U.S. top 100 in 1998, and has since become quietly unisex, with a small but real cohort of girls joining the ranks. Two syllables, crisp and contained, CAR-son, ending on that soft n. It reads as capable, a little Western, a little preppy, and built for any decade it ends up in.