Elmore

Where Elmore comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Elmore.

  • Vowel-ended
Elmore through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #640 among boys, with 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1896
    Peak, #400
    24 babies named Elmore, its best rank.
  3. 1901
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #727.
  4. 1918
    Elmore James born
    American blues musician
  5. 1925
    Elmore Leonard born
    American novelist and screenwriter
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Elmore Leonard · American novelist and screenwriter, 1925–2013
  • Elmore James · American blues musician, 1918–1963
  • Elmore Smith · American basketball player, born 1949
  • Elmore Spencer · American basketball player, born 1969
  • Elmore Y. Sarles · American politician, 1859–1929

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.