Elmore

Where Elmore comes from

Elmore 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 #640 among boys — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1896
    Peak, #400
    24 babies named Elmore — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1901
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #727.
  4. 1918
    Elmore James born
    American blues musician
  5. 1925
    Elmore Leonard born
    American novelist and screenwriter
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Elmore Leonard · American novelist and screenwriter, 1925–2013
  • Elmore James · American blues musician, 1918–1963
  • Elmore Smith · American basketball player, born 1949
  • Elmore Spencer · American basketball player, born 1969
  • Elmore Y. Sarles · American politician, 1859–1929

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.