Hendrix

Hendrix walks in with a Stratocaster slung low. A Dutch surname meaning "son of Hendrik"—itself a form of Henry, ruler of the home—it belongs now almost entirely to Jimi, whose 1969 Woodstock anthem rearranged what a guitar could do. Parents began reaching for it in the early 2000s; it entered the Top 1000 in 2010 and has climbed quickly to near 296. Two syllables with a firm consonant kick at the end, HEN-drix, that sounds like a drum roll finishing. Rock-and-roll without being disposable, distinctive without being strange, Hendrix lets a family wear its record collection on its sleeve.