Pliny

Where Pliny comes from

Pliny 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. 1809
    Pliny Earle born
    American psychiatrist
  2. 1869
    Pliny Earle Goddard born
    American linguist and ethnologist
  3. 1884
    Debut at its peak, #971
    #971 among boys with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  4. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Pliny Earle Goddard · American linguist and ethnologist, 1869–1928
  • Pliny Earle · American psychiatrist, 1809–1892
  • Pliny T. Merrick · American politician and judge, 1794–1867
  • Pliny Norcross · American lawyer and politician, 1838–1915
  • Pliny Fisk · American Congregationalist minister, 1792–1825

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.