Asbury

Where Asbury comes from

Asbury 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. 1851
    Asbury Latimer born
    American politician
  2. 1875
    Asbury Francis Lever born
    South Carolina Congressman
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #809 among boys — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1881
    Peak, #533
    11 babies named Asbury — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1887
    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
  • Asbury Latimer · American politician, 1851–1908
  • Asbury Francis Lever · South Carolina Congressman, 1875–1940
  • Asbury Bascom Davidson · politician, 1855–1920
  • Asbury Dickins · US Secretary of Senate, 1780–1861

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.