Bev

Where Bev comes from

Bev 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. 1940
    First appearance
    #4,349 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1940
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1944
    Bev Oda born
    Canadian broadcaster, politician
  4. 1944
    Bev Bevan born
    British drummer
  5. 1959
    Peak, #929
    127 babies named Bev — more than any year before or since.
  6. 1963
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,623.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Bev Bevan · British drummer, born 1944
  • Bev Oda · Canadian broadcaster, politician, born 1944
  • Bev Lyon · English cricketer, 1902–1970
  • Bev Wilson · Australian cricketer, born 1949
  • Bev Shipley · Canadian politician, born 1947

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.