Elwood

Where Elwood comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Elwood.

Elwood through the years
  1. 1857
    Elwood Haynes born
    American inventor
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #356 among boys, with 23 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1915
    Peak, #204
    529 babies named Elwood, its best rank.
  4. 1920
    Elwood V. Jensen born
    American biologist
  5. 1944
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #376.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Elwood Haynes · American inventor, 1857–1925
  • Elwood V. Jensen · American biologist, 1920–2012
  • Elwood Hillis · American politician, 1926–2023
  • Elwood Cooke · US tennis player, 1914–2004
  • Elwood Mead · American academic and politician, 1858–1936

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.