Geary

Where Geary comes from

Geary 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. 1895
    Geary Eppley born
    American academic and sports coach
  2. 1916
    First appearance
    #3,897 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1953
    Peak, #494
    201 babies named Geary — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1956
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #849.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Geary Eppley · American academic and sports coach, 1895–1978

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.