Worth

Where Worth comes from

Worth 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. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #682 among boys — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1884
    Worth Ryder born
    American artist
  3. 1898
    Peak, #573
    14 babies named Worth — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1901
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1913
    Worth Hamilton Weller born
    American herpetologist
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Worth Hamilton Weller · American herpetologist, 1913–1931
  • Worth Ryder · American artist, 1884–1960

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.