Homer

Where Homer comes from

From Latin Homērus, from Ancient Greek Ὅμηρος (Hómēros).
— Wiktionary's entry for Homer
  • Ancient Greek
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 900 BC
    Homer born
    reputed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #76 among boys — 205 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1893
    Peak, #64
    293 babies named Homer — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1943
    Homer Hickam born
    American author and engineer
  5. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #671.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Ancient Greek.
Namesakes
  • Homer · reputed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, 900 BC–800 BC
  • Homer Hickam · American author and engineer, born 1943
  • Homer Stille Cummings · American politician, 1870–1956
  • Homer Burton Adkins · American chemist, 1892–1949
  • Homer H. Dubs · American sinologist, 1892–1969

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.