Laverne

Derived from the French surname and place name La Verne, tracing back to the Gaulish word for the alder tree. Nineteenth-century American record-keepers began logging it in 1885 as a gender-neutral coin of the realm. It spent its first few decades evenly split between boys and girls before settling predominantly on the female ledger.

The name reads as a woman who knows how to keep score in ten-pin bowling and has no patience for a wobbly table. It belongs to the era of diner coffee served in thick ceramic mugs and shifts worked on an assembly line. Around three-quarters of people who ever held it were female, though enough men carry it to keep historians alert. Today, the name sounds mostly like someone who would never permit you to leave the house without a jacket.