Green

Where Green comes from

Green 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. 1826
    Green Clay Smith born
    Union Army general
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #270 among boys — 39 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1883
    Green Hackworth born
    American judge
  4. 1886
    Peak, #254
    45 babies named Green — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1889
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #388.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Green Clay Smith · Union Army general, 1826–1895
  • Green Hackworth · American judge, 1883–1973
  • Green Berry Samuels · American politician, 1806–1859
  • Green Adams · lawyer, member and functionary of the United States Congress, 1812–1884
  • Green Peyton Wertenbaker · American journalist and writer, 1907–1968

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.