Luke

A physician traveling with Paul, notebook open, writing down the stories no one else had bothered to collect — the Gospel of Luke is the one with the shepherds, the manger, the thieves on the cross speaking to each other. The name comes from the Latin Lucanus, "man from Lucania," a region in southern Italy, and carries a distant cousin relationship to lux, "light." One syllable, clean as a struck match. Luke sits at rank 34 in the United States, a position it has held with uncommon steadiness. The name reads gentle and grown-up at once, easy on a toddler, dignified on a grandfather.