Kit

Kit is a nickname that learned to stand on its own. Historically it's short for Christopher, as in the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe, called Kit in his own lifetime, or for Katherine, as in countless Victorian girls. Davy Crockett's sidekick Kit Carson gave it a frontier streak; The Hunger Games and Kit Harington gave it a newer gloss. At 1240 and unisex, it's a single clipped syllable, the sound of a twig snapping, tidy and alert. Kit reads nimble, bookish, slightly outdoorsy, the kind of name that fits in a pocket and knows how to start a fire.