Estes

Where Estes comes from

Estes 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. 1887
    First appearance
    #921 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1888
    Peak, #815
    7 babies named Estes — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1889
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1903
    Estes Kefauver born
    American politician
  5. 1945
    Estes Banks born
    American football player
  6. 2021
    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

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

Namesakes
  • Estes Kefauver · American politician, 1903–1963
  • Estes Banks · American football player, born 1945

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.