Bascom

Where Bascom comes from

Bascom 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.

Along the way
  1. 1882
    Bascom Lamar Lunsford born
    American musician and lawyer
  2. 1882
    First appearance
    #837 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1884
    Peak, #504
    14 babies named Bascom — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #765.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Bascom Lamar Lunsford · American musician and lawyer, 1882–1973

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.