Pershing

Where Pershing comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Pershing.

Pershing through the years
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #2,458 among boys with 10 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1917
    Around this time: General Pershing leads US forces in World War I
    Event, 1917 · Source
  3. 1918
    Peak, #334
    295 babies named Pershing, the most in any year.
  4. 1919
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #593.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Pershing in Wikidata.

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. Events show what happened around then, not why parents chose the name.