Price

Where Price comes from

Price 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. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #682 among boys — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1896
    Peak, #438
    20 babies named Price — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1898
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,002.
  4. 1910
    Price Daniel born
    American judge and Texas Governor
  5. 1954
    Price Cobb born
    American racing driver
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Price Daniel · American judge and Texas Governor, 1910–1988
  • Price Cobb · American racing driver, born 1954
  • Price Brookfield · American basketball player, 1920–2006
  • Price Daniel, Jr. · American politician in Texas, 1941–1981
  • Price Devereux, 10th Viscount Hereford · British politician, 1694–1748

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.