Pliny

Where Pliny comes from

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  • Vowel-ended
Pliny through the years
  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 in the first year it was published, and still its best.
  4. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
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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

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