Doctor

Where Doctor comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Doctor.

Doctor through the years
  1. 1825
    Doctor Willard Bliss born
    American physician (1825-1889) who treated President Garfield in 1881
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #600 among boys, with 10 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1884
    Peak, #547
    12 babies named Doctor, its best rank.
  4. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #936.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Doctor Willard Bliss · American physician (1825-1889) who treated President Garfield in 1881, 1825–1889

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.