Winston

Winston began as an Old English place name, Wynnstan, meaning joy stone or friend's stone, and Churchill turned it into cigar smoke and wartime radio broadcasts. The name rolls with a certain stubborn English dignity, tweed jackets and library globes, but it has softened considerably in American ears, helped along by affable fictional Winstons on New Girl and in Ghostbusters. Ranked 405 in the U.S., it has been rising quietly as parents warm to stately surname-style first names. Two syllables, the W warm, the st crisp, the final n decisive. A name with gravitas to grow into and charm to start with.