Hoover

Where Hoover comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Hoover.

Hoover through the years
  1. 1913
    First appearance
    #2,821 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1928
    Around this time: Herbert Hoover elected president
    Event, 1928 · Source
  3. 1928
    Peak, #362
    256 babies named Hoover, the most in any year.
  4. 1930
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #640.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Hoover 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. Events show what happened around then, not why parents chose the name.