Dillard

Where Dillard comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Dillard.

Dillard through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #600 among boys, with 10 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1898
    Peak, #573
    14 babies named Dillard, its best rank.
  3. 1903
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #910.
  4. 1919
    Dillard Morrison born
    American mobster
  5. 1925
    Dillard Crocker born
    basketball player
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Dillard Crocker · basketball player, 1925–2014
  • Dillard Morrison · American mobster, 1919–1998

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.