Early

Where Early comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Early.

  • Vowel-ended
Early through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #571 among boys, with 11 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1897
    Peak, #321
    33 babies named Early, its best rank.
  3. 1920
    Early Wynn born
    American baseball player
  4. 1964
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #2,409.
  5. 1985
    Early Doucet born
    American football player
  6. 2015
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Early Wynn · American baseball player, 1920–1999
  • Early Doucet · American football player, born 1985

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.