Greene

Where Greene comes from

Greene 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. 1806
    Greene Washington Caldwell born
    American politician
  2. 1836
    Greene Vardiman Black born
    American dentistry academic
  3. 1882
    Debut at its peak, #943
    #943 among boys with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  4. 1883
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Greene Vardiman Black · American dentistry academic, 1836–1915
  • Greene Washington Caldwell · American politician, 1806–1864
  • Greene C. Bronson · American politician, 1789–1863

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.