Dabney

Where Dabney comes from

Dabney 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1932
    Dabney Coleman born
    American actor
  2. 1947
    First appearance
    #5,295 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1948
    Peak, #3,593
    9 babies named Dabney — more than any year before or since.
  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 it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

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

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.