Dempsey

Where Dempsey comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Dempsey.

  • Vowel-ended
Dempsey through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #571 among boys with 11 babies in the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1881
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1927
    Dempsey Wilson born
    racing driver
  4. 1996
    Dempsey Bryk born
    actor
  5. 2025
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
In the dictionary

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Namesakes
  • Dempsey Wilson · racing driver, 1927–1971
  • Dempsey Bryk · actor, born 1996
  • Dempsey Burges · American politician, 1751–1800
  • Dempsey J. Barron · American politician, 1922–2001

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.