Author

Where Author comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Author.

Author through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #809 among boys, with 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1883
    Peak, #556
    11 babies named Author, its best rank.
  3. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Author in Wikidata.

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.