Dabney

Where Dabney comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Dabney.

  • Vowel-ended
Dabney through the years
  1. 1932
    Dabney Coleman born
    American actor
  2. 1947
    First appearance
    #5,295 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1948
    Peak, #3,593
    9 babies named Dabney, its best rank.
  4. 1950
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1996
    Dabney dos Santos born
    Dutch footballer
  6. 2011
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Dabney Coleman · American actor, 1932–2024
  • Dabney dos Santos · Dutch footballer, born 1996
  • Dabney H. Maury · Confederate Army general, 1822–1900
  • Dabney L. Friedrich · Federal district court judge, born 1967
  • Dabney Carr · American politician, nephew of Thomas Jefferson, 1773–1837

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.