Lincoln

Derived from an English place name combining the Brythonic word for pool with the Roman colonia. It moved from a British town to a surname before American parents adopted it as a first name honoring the sixteenth president. For more than a century it remained a modest presence in the registers before twenty-first-century parents rediscovered it in bulk.

The name carries the visual weight of a marble memorial, but the statistical reality is an elementary school student in sneakers. Roughly seventy-eight percent of all living Lincolns belong to Generation Alpha. It suggests parents who appreciate historical gravity but needed two syllables that fit on a cubby label. On paper it looks like a statesman, but in practice it is usually asking for the Wi-Fi password.