Ike

Where Ike comes from

The dictionaries list Ike as a given name — a diminutive of the male given name Isaac — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 1 syllable
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #258 among boys — 42 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1884
    Peak, #184
    76 babies named Ike — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1893
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #300.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Isaac.
Namesakes

No widely known Ike turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.