Echo

Where Echo comes from

Echo 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1888
    First appearance
    #1,276 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1977
    Echo Eggebrecht born
    American artist
  3. 1982
    Echo Kellum born
    American actor and comedian
  4. 1984
    Peak, #845
    182 babies named Echo — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1987
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,776.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Echo Kellum · American actor and comedian, born 1982
  • Echo Eggebrecht · American artist, born 1977

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.