Eppie

Where Eppie comes from

The dictionaries list Eppie as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Euphemia — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1886
    First appearance
    #1,108 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1887
    Peak, #937
    7 babies named Eppie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1888
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1970
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Euphemia.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Hephzibah.
Namesakes

No widely known Eppie turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.