Trinity

Trinity arrived as a theological word, the Latin trinitas for threefold, long before it became a name. It marks Christian doctrine, a New Mexico atomic test site, and a leather-clad hacker in The Matrix, who sent the name rocketing up U.S. charts after 1999. Ranked 407 today, it has moderated into a familiar, still faintly mystical choice. Three syllables, the opening consonant cluster bright, the long ee at the close holding a small echo. It carries devotion for some families and cinematic cool for others, and manages the rare trick of belonging equally to church pews and neon cityscapes.