Moody

Where Moody comes from

Moody 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. 1806
    Moody Currier born
    American politician
  2. 1882
    First appearance
    #943 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1893
    Peak, #650
    10 babies named Moody — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1894
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1927
    Moody Awori born
    Kenyan politician
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Moody Awori · Kenyan politician, born 1927
  • Moody Currier · American politician, 1806–1898
  • Moody Chana · German-Cameroonian association football player, born 1999

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.