Nyree

Where Nyree comes from

Nyree 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. 1936
    Nyree Dawn Porter born
    New Zealand-British actress
  2. 1970
    First appearance
    #5,061 among girls, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1973
    Peak, #833
    157 babies named Nyree — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1976
    Nyree Roberts born
    American basketball player
  5. 1976
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,747.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Nyree Dawn Porter · New Zealand-British actress, 1936–2001
  • Nyree Roberts · American basketball player, born 1976
  • Nyree Der-Megerdichian · Armenian association football player, born 2001

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.