Shiloh

Shiloh hums like a hymn. A Hebrew place name meaning roughly "tranquil" or "his gift," Shiloh was the ancient Israelite sanctuary town where the Ark of the Covenant rested for centuries, and later the Tennessee battlefield of the American Civil War whose name still echoes in Southern memory. The leap to first name came slowly until 2006, when Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's daughter carried Shiloh onto every magazine cover; the name cracked the US top 1000 that year and now sits around 260, fully unisex. Two syllables of breath and long O. Biblical without being strict, Southern without being twang.