Dillard

Where Dillard comes from

Dillard 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. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #600 among boys — 10 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1898
    Peak, #573
    14 babies named Dillard — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1903
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #910.
  4. 1919
    Dillard Morrison born
    American mobster
  5. 1925
    Dillard Crocker born
    basketball player
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Dillard Crocker · basketball player, 1925–2014
  • Dillard Morrison · American mobster, 1919–1998

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.