Dylan

A harmonica in a smoky Greenwich Village basement, a Welsh coastline where the tide keeps rewriting the rocks — Dylan draws its energy from both. Rooted in Welsh legend, borne into American life by a Minnesota folk singer who borrowed it from a poet, the name arrived on this side of the Atlantic already half-literary, half-rebel. It has since loosened into unisex territory, comfortable on daughters and sons alike, and now holds rank 28. Two syllables, a soft landing on the L, and just enough edge in the opening D. A name that hums rather than announces, and moves easily across a lifetime.