Jeptha

Where Jeptha comes from

Jeptha 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. 1811
    Jeptha Wade born
    American entrepreneur, daguerreotypist and portrait painter
  2. 1830
    Jeptha D. New born
    American politician
  3. 1883
    Debut at its peak, #799
    #799 among boys with 6 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  4. 1884
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Jeptha D. New · American politician, 1830–1892
  • Jeptha Wade · American entrepreneur, daguerreotypist and portrait painter, 1811–1890
  • Jeptha Bradley · American politician, 1802–1864
  • Jeptha Root Simms · American historian, 1807–1883

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.