Crete

Where Crete comes from

Crete 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. 1881
    Crete Cage born
    American journalist and clubwoman
  2. 1881
    First appearance
    #740 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1882
    Peak, #678
    8 babies named Crete — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1883
    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
  • Crete Cage · American journalist and clubwoman, 1881–1968

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.