Handy

Where Handy comes from

Originating as a nickname for a handy person.
— Wiktionary's entry for Handy
  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Handy through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys, with 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1888
    Peak, #648
    10 babies named Handy, its best rank.
  3. 1889
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 2003
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from English.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Handy in Wikidata.

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.