Libbie

Where Libbie comes from

Libbie 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1849
    Libbie Riley Baer born
    American poet
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #375 among girls — 19 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1881
    Peak, #374
    20 babies named Libbie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1888
    Libbie Henrietta Hyman born
    American zoologist
  5. 1907
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,384.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Libbie Henrietta Hyman · American zoologist, 1888–1969
  • Libbie Riley Baer · American poet, 1849–1929

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.