Lyric

Lyric opens like a page from a songbook. The word reaches back to the Greek lyrikos, poetry sung to the lyre, that curved, stringed instrument Apollo supposedly invented. As a name it is wholly modern, blooming in the late 1990s with the rise of word-as-name naming and the cultural ubiquity of hip-hop, where lyric is a daily currency. Ranked 594, it is comfortably unisex, leaning slightly feminine. Two syllables, one tumbling into the next, a name that already holds a promise: that whoever carries it has something to say, and some sense of how to set it to music.