Weston

An English surname from the Old English for west town, the settlement at the western edge of the parish, found across British ordnance survey maps and shipped to the American colonies with the first waves of Puritan settlers. Edward Weston photographed peppers and dunes into modernist icons in the 1930s; Weston Price wrote on nutrition; Weston, Massachusetts, is horse country. As a first name it is a twenty-first-century American climber, joining the cohort of Wyatt and Waylon with a shared preference for w's and open western vowels. It currently ranks 70 and is given to about one in 368 boys. Two clean syllables that sound like an address.