Volney

Where Volney comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Volney.

  • Vowel-ended
Volney through the years
  1. 1809
    Volney Howard born
    American politician
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #571 among boys with 11 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. 1928
    Volney Peters born
    American football player
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Volney Howard · American politician, 1809–1889
  • Volney Peters · American football player, 1928–2015
  • Volney Morgan Spalding · American botanist, 1849–1918
  • Volney F. Warner · United States general, 1926–2019

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.