Daisy

Picture a front lawn in late May, the small white-and-yellow heads turning toward morning. Daisy comes straight from the Old English daeges eage, the day's eye, for the flower that closes at dusk and opens again at dawn. Once a Victorian nickname for Margaret (whose French cousin marguerite is literally a daisy), it has shed its understudy status entirely. The name now sits around the top 80 in the U.S., a cottagecore favorite that reads equally well on a farmhouse porch or a Brooklyn brownstone. Sunny without being saccharine, it sounds like a hand cupping something small and alive.