Andon

Where Andon comes from

Andon 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. 1939
    Andon Dončevski born
    association football player
  2. 1951
    Andon Nikolov born
    Bulgarian weightlifter
  3. 1979
    First appearance
    #6,056 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2004
    Peak, #865
    203 babies named Andon — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2005
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,648.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Andon Nikolov · Bulgarian weightlifter, born 1951
  • Andon Dončevski · association football player, born 1939
  • Andon Beça · Albanian politician, 1879–1944
  • Andon Kyoseto · Revolutionary, 1855–1953
  • Andon Amaraich · Micronesian judge, 1932–2010

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.