Morgan

Morgan comes from Welsh seafaring. The Old Welsh compound of mor, "sea," and can, "circle" or "bright," gave the name to Morgan le Fay, the enchantress half-sister of King Arthur, and later to the pirate Henry Morgan whose face Captain Morgan rum still borrows. Originally masculine, Morgan tilted female in the late twentieth century, pushed by Morgan Fairchild and a wave of surname-to-first-name crossover, and now reads fully unisex at 276 on the US charts. Two steady syllables, a warm central G, the soft closing N. Arthurian without costume, gender-fluid without self-consciousness. A name with sea spray and good bones.