Scott

Scott began life as a simple description—a man from Scotland—before settling into surname, then given name, as the English-speaking world so often does with its geographies. One syllable, two consonants at the close, the sound of a door shutting firmly. It peaked in the United States in the 1960s and 70s, worn by astronauts, quarterbacks, and a million yearbook pages, and has since receded into pleasant midcentury territory. Fitzgerald gave it literary gravity; Scott of the Antarctic, tragic polar romance. Unfussy, practical, a little windswept. The kind of name that shows up on time with a good handshake.