Bambi

Where Bambi comes from

Borrowed from Italian Bambi, from bambina (“young girl”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Bambi
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1943
    First appearance
    #3,493 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1955
    Bambi Woods born
    American pornographic actress
  3. 1979
    Peak, #562
    327 babies named Bambi — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1982
    Bambi born
    British street artist
  5. 1982
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #934.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Bambi Woods · American pornographic actress, born 1955
  • Bambi · British street artist, born 1982
  • Bambi Jones · American entertainer, born 1931
  • Bambi Sheleg · Israeli journalist, 1958–2016
  • Bambi Francisco · American journalist, born 1966

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.