Waylon

Somewhere between a honky-tonk jukebox and an English folk ballad, the name Waylon lives on outlaw country's back roads. Waylon Jennings turned it into a genre by itself with his outlaw sessions of the 1970s, and the name borrows its older shadow from the Anglo-Saxon Wayland the Smith, the mythical blacksmith who forged swords in hollow hills. It cratered to near invisibility for most of the twentieth century, then came charging back on the country-modern wave with Wyatt and Wesley and Weston. It currently ranks 65 and is given to about one in 352 boys. Two syllables, one pair of boots, road dust included.