Hanson
Where Hanson comes from
Hanson 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
- 1867Hanson Edward Ely bornUnited States Army general
- 1883Debut at its peak, #892#892 among boys with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
- 1884The fadeThe 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
- Hanson Edward Ely · United States Army general, 1867–1958
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.