Kiefer

Where Kiefer comes from

Kiefer 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. 1966
    Kiefer Sutherland born
    British-Canadian actor
  2. 1988
    First appearance
    #1,879 among boys, 35 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1991
    Peak, #710
    204 babies named Kiefer — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1993
    Kiefer Ravena born
    Filipino basketball player
  5. 1993
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,144.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Kiefer Sutherland · British-Canadian actor, born 1966
  • Kiefer Ravena · Filipino basketball player, born 1993

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.