Erving
Where Erving comes from
Erving 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
- 1881Debut at its peak, #706#706 among boys with 7 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
- 1882The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births.
- 1922Erving Goffman bornCanadian-American sociologist
- 1990Erving Walker bornAmerican basketball player
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Erving Goffman · Canadian-American sociologist, 1922–1982
- Erving Walker · American basketball player, born 1990
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.