Berton

Where Berton comes from

Berton 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. 1876
    Berton Churchill born
    Canadian actor
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #682 among boys — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1881
    Peak, #595
    9 babies named Berton — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1888
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1951
    Berton L. Stevens born
    American astronomer
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Berton Churchill · Canadian actor, 1876–1940
  • Berton L. Stevens · American astronomer, born 1951
  • Berton Braley · American writer, 1882–1966

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.