Webster

Where Webster comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Webster.

Webster through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #505 among boys, with 13 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1890
    Peak, #376
    22 babies named Webster, its best rank.
  3. 1891
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #564.
  4. 1893
    Webster Campbell born
    American film actor, director, and screenwriter
  5. 1946
    Webster Tarpley born
    American author, journalist, historian
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Webster Tarpley · American author, journalist, historian, born 1946
  • Webster Campbell · American film actor, director, and screenwriter, 1893–1972
  • Webster Wells · American mathematician, 1851–1916
  • Webster Hubbell · American lawyer, politician, and felon, born 1948
  • Webster Young · American musician, 1932–2003

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.