Edris

Where Edris comes from

Edris 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. 1899
    First appearance
    #1,394 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1904
    Edris Rice-Wray Carson born
    medical researcher
  3. 1904
    Peak, #910
    16 babies named Edris — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1905
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,420.
  5. 1918
    Edris Saint-Amand born
    Haitian writer
  6. 1978
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Edris Rice-Wray Carson · medical researcher, 1904–1990
  • Edris Saint-Amand · Haitian writer, 1918–2004

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.