Paris

Paris carries a double life, both a city name and a Greek mythological one. In the Iliad, Paris was the Trojan prince whose love for Helen sparked a war; the French capital, meanwhile, takes its name from the Celtic Parisii tribe who lived there before the Romans arrived. As a girl's name it came into American view in the late twentieth century and gained particular visibility through Paris Hilton in the early 2000s. It now sits at 484. Two syllables, soft and balanced, with the airy opening P and the whispered final S. Paris reads as cosmopolitan, literary, and a little bit glamorous.