Harper

Harper was once a job — the person who played the harp at a medieval feast, whose surname recorded the work — and the name still carries a faint hum of string and hall. Harper Lee, publishing To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960, pulled it firmly into literary air, and David Beckham's daughter pulled it firmly into tabloid air in 2011. Between them, they turned an old English occupational into one of the defining girls' names of the 2010s; it has held a top-twenty spot for years. Two crisp syllables with a hard r that keeps it from going soft. Folk, bookish, and lightly androgynous.