Felix

From the Latin for "happy" and "fortunate," Felix was once awarded to Roman generals as an honorific, a name you earned by surviving your luck. It traveled through early Christian saints, four popes, and Mendelssohn, then landed in the twentieth century on a mischievous black cartoon cat. Felix carries its good cheer lightly. The clipped x gives it modern snap; the soft opening syllable keeps it from swaggering. Holding steady around the 177 mark in the U.S. rankings, it has quietly climbed back into fashion after decades away. Short, literate, genuinely upbeat without trying too hard.