Alcide

Where Alcide comes from

Alcide 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1802
    Alcide d'Orbigny born
    French scientist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #745 among boys — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1881
    Alcide De Gasperi born
    Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party
  4. 1886
    Peak, #694
    8 babies named Alcide — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1891
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Alcide De Gasperi · Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party, 1881–1954
  • Alcide d'Orbigny · French scientist, 1802–1857
  • Alcide Nunez · Early jazz clarinetist, 1884–1934
  • Alcide Legrand · French amateur wrestler, born 1962
  • Alcide Giuseppe Marina · Italian diplomat, 1887–1950

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.