Elbridge

Where Elbridge comes from

Elbridge 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. 1744
    Elbridge Gerry born
    vice president of the United States from 1813 to 1814
  2. 1881
    First appearance
    #653 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1886
    Peak, #605
    10 babies named Elbridge — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1887
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1979
    Elbridge Colby born
    American official and strategy consultant
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Elbridge Gerry · vice president of the United States from 1813 to 1814, 1744–1814
  • Elbridge Colby · American official and strategy consultant, born 1979
  • Elbridge Ross · American ice hockey player, 1909–1980
  • Elbridge G. Lapham · American politician, 1814–1890
  • Elbridge Ayer Burbank · American artist, 1858–1949

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.