Speed

Where Speed comes from

Speed 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.

Along the way
  1. 1817
    Speed S. Fry born
    Union Army general
  2. 1890
    Debut at its peak, #994
    #994 among boys with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  3. 1891
    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
  • Speed S. Fry · Union Army general, 1817–1892

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.