Morgan

Morgan begins in the old Celtic tongues of Wales, where "mor" means sea and "cant" means circle. Put together, the name reaches toward something like sea circle, and the older readings pull it further, to the sea-born. It began as a man's name. Only later did it cross into English for daughters as well as sons.

The most famous Morgan in English was written rather than lived. Morgan le Fay, the enchantress of the Arthurian tales, gave the name a sharp, watery edge that later families half remembered. Whether her name shares that same sea root is argued rather than settled.

On a class register it suits a boy or a girl equally. That flexibility helped it travel far beyond Wales.

Morgan keeps no soft diminutives. It stands whole, four plain letters, the sea circle still folded inside the sea-born meaning.