Amasa

Where Amasa comes from

Amasa hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1799
    Amasa Walker born
    U.S. Representative and economist
  2. 1823
    Amasa Cobb born
    Union Army general
  3. 1886
    Debut at its peak, #959
    #959 among boys with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  4. 1887
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Amasa Walker · U.S. Representative and economist, 1799–1875
  • Amasa Cobb · Union Army general, 1823–1905
  • Amasa Junius Parker · American politician, 1807–1890
  • Amasa Dana · American politician, 1792–1867
  • Amasa Norcross · American politician, 1824–1898

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.