Lemon

Where Lemon comes from

Lemon 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. 1882
    First appearance
    #754 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1902
    Peak, #556
    15 babies named Lemon — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1903
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #910.
  4. 1975
    Lemon Andersen born
    American poet, spoken word artist and actor
  5. 2014
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Lemon Andersen · American poet, spoken word artist and actor, born 1975

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.