Claiborne

Where Claiborne comes from

Claiborne 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. 1806
    Claiborne Fox Jackson born
    15th Governor of Missouri
  2. 1889
    Debut at its peak, #974
    #974 among boys with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  3. 1890
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1918
    Claiborne Pell born
    American politician
  5. 2016
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Claiborne Pell · American politician, 1918–2009
  • Claiborne Fox Jackson · 15th Governor of Missouri, 1806–1862
  • Claiborne Catlin Elliman · 19th-20th-century suffragist and political leader

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.