Early

Where Early comes from

Early 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
    Already #571 among boys — 11 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1897
    Peak, #321
    33 babies named Early — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1920
    Early Wynn born
    American baseball player
  4. 1964
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,409.
  5. 1985
    Early Doucet born
    American football player
  6. 2015
    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
  • Early Wynn · American baseball player, 1920–1999
  • Early Doucet · American football player, born 1985

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.