Colonel

Where Colonel comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Colonel.

Colonel through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #571 among boys, with 11 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1891
    Peak, #397
    19 babies named Colonel, its best rank.
  3. 1893
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #836.
  4. 1949
    Colonel Abrams born
    American musician
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Colonel Abrams · American musician, 1949–2016

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.