Elwood

Derived from an English place name meaning elder tree wood. It crossed the Atlantic as a surname. By the late nineteenth century, American parents adopted it widely across the rural and industrial Midwest.

The name reads as a man who knows precisely which fuse blew without checking the panel. It carries the weight of a generation that kept spare washers in a glass jar on a high shelf. Today it sounds either like a grandfather who owned a slide rule or a very small child in wool suspenders. The name makes no promises it cannot fix with a wrench.