Gladstone

Where Gladstone comes from

Gladstone 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1898
    Debut at its peak, #885
    #885 among boys with 7 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1899
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1944
    Gladstone Agbamu born
    Nigerian athlete
  4. 1961
    Gladstone Small born
    Cricket player of England.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Gladstone Small · Cricket player of England., born 1961
  • Gladstone Agbamu · Nigerian athlete, born 1944
  • Gladstone Anderson · Jamaican musician, 1934–2015
  • Gladstone Guest · English footballer, 1917–1998

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.