Bayard

Where Bayard comes from

The dictionaries list Bayard as a given name — a male given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1825
    Bayard Taylor born
    United States poet, novelist and travel writer
  2. 1882
    Debut at its peak, #943
    #943 among boys with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  3. 1883
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1912
    Bayard Rustin born
    American civil rights activist
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes
  • Bayard Rustin · American civil rights activist, 1912–1987
  • Bayard Taylor · United States poet, novelist and travel writer, 1825–1878
  • Bayard Veiller · screenwriter, 1869–1943
  • Bayard Taylor Horton · American physician, 1895–1980
  • Bayard Dodge · American scholar of Islam, 1888–1972

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.