Trajan

Where Trajan comes from

Borrowed from Latin Trāiānus.
— Wiktionary's entry for Trajan
  • Latin
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 500
    Trajan the Patrician born
    Byzantine historian
  2. 1976
    Trajan Langdon born
    American basketball player
  3. 1994
    First appearance
    #4,290 among boys, 14 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1999
    Peak, #996
    141 babies named Trajan — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2000
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,330.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Trajan Langdon · American basketball player, born 1976
  • Trajan the Patrician · Byzantine historian, 500–701
  • Trajan Doda · Austro-Hungarian major general of Romanian ethnicity, 1822–1895

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.