Jack

Jack has been the English everyman for so long that Middle English writers used it as a generic stand-in for any young fellow — Jack the lad, Jack of all trades, Jack in the beanstalk, Jack at every card table. It began as a diminutive of John (itself from the Hebrew Yochanan, God is gracious) and somewhere along the way became its own thing entirely. Jack sat at the top of British charts for over a decade and remains a fixture of the American top twenty. One syllable, hard-edged, friendly as a pub door. Folk without being twee. A name that is never pretending to be anything it isn't.