Rice

Where Rice comes from

Rice 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. 1877
    Rice W. Means born
    American Politician and Ku Klux Klan member
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #640 among boys with 9 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1881
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1896
    Rice Gemmell born
    Australian tennis player
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Rice Gemmell · Australian tennis player, 1896–2000
  • Rice W. Means · American Politician and Ku Klux Klan member, 1877–1949
  • Rice Alexander Pierce · American politician, 1848–1936
  • Rice Garland · American politician, 1795–1861
  • Rice Sheppard · Canadian politician, 1861–1947

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.