Dempsey

Where Dempsey comes from

Dempsey 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. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #571 among boys with 11 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1881
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1927
    Dempsey Wilson born
    racing driver
  4. 1996
    Dempsey Bryk born
    actor
  5. 2025
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls 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
  • Dempsey Wilson · racing driver, 1927–1971
  • Dempsey Bryk · actor, born 1996
  • Dempsey Burges · American politician, 1751–1800
  • Dempsey J. Barron · American politician, 1922–2001

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.