Rice

Where Rice comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Rice.

  • Vowel-ended
Rice through the years
  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 in 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

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.