Lary

Where Lary comes from

Lary 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. 1918
    First appearance
    #3,096 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1942
    Lary Schulhof born
    American swimmer, Olympic athlete, former world record-holder
  3. 1946
    Peak, #826
    63 babies named Lary — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1955
    Lary Sorensen born
    American baseball player
  5. 1961
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,439.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Lary Schulhof · American swimmer, Olympic athlete, former world record-holder, born 1942
  • Lary Sorensen · American baseball player, born 1955

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.