Thompson

Where Thompson comes from

Thompson 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. 1863
    Thompson Capper born
    British First World War general
  2. 1882
    First appearance
    #943 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1887
    Peak, #679
    8 babies named Thompson — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1888
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1942
    Thompson Mann born
    American swimmer
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Thompson Mann · American swimmer, 1942–2019
  • Thompson Capper · British First World War general, 1863–1915
  • Thompson Campbell · American politician, 1811–1868
  • Thompson Cooper · English journalist, man of letters, and biographer, 1837–1904
  • Thompson H. Murch · American politician, 1838–1886

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.