Rain

Rain is a weather word that took on the cadence of a name, four letters that fall in one soft syllable. Word-names like Rain, River, and Sky started appearing on birth certificates in the seventies and never quite left; Richard Pryor gave a daughter the name, and contemporary parents have kept choosing it. At 1394 and unisex, it reads elemental and a little romantic, a name with a window open and a gray sky outside. There's nothing cluttered here: just weather, just the verb of falling. Rain is clean, atmospheric, a name that doesn't mind a quiet afternoon.