Pepper

Where Pepper comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Pepper.

Pepper through the years
  1. 1947
    First appearance
    #5,295 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1964
    Pepper Johnson born
    American football player and coach
  3. 1967
    Pepper Keenan born
    American guitarist and vocalist
  4. 1975
    Peak, #951
    132 babies named Pepper, its best rank.
  5. 1978
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,669.
  6. 2005
    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
  • Pepper Keenan · American guitarist and vocalist, born 1967
  • Pepper Johnson · American football player and coach, born 1964
  • Pepper Binkley · American actress

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.