Parley

Where Parley comes from

Parley 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. 1807
    Parley P. Pratt born
    Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #640 among boys with 9 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1881
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1914
    Parley Baer born
    American actor
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Parley Baer · American actor, 1914–2002
  • Parley P. Pratt · Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1807–1857
  • Parley Parker Christensen · American politician, 1869–1954

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.