Nevada

Where Nevada comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Nevada.

  • Vowel-ended
Nevada through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #492 among girls, with 12 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #431
    18 babies named Nevada, its best rank.
  3. 1884
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #731.
  4. 1885
    Nevada Stoody Hayes born
    American socialite
  5. 1952
    Nevada Barr born
    American novelist
  6. 1991
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Nevada Barr · American novelist, born 1952
  • Nevada Stoody Hayes · American socialite, 1885–1941
  • Nevada Van der Veer · American contralto singer, 1884–1958

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.