Easter

Where Easter comes from

Easter 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.

Along the way
  1. 1874
    Easter Wiggins born
    American supercentenarian
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #492 among girls — 12 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1883
    Peak, #411
    21 babies named Easter — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1889
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #950.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Easter Wiggins · American supercentenarian, 1874–1990

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.