Mamie

Where Mamie comes from

Mamie 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. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #58 among girls — 436 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1888
    Peak, #53
    917 babies named Mamie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1896
    Mamie Eisenhower born
    First Lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961
  4. 1931
    Mamie Van Doren born
    American actress
  5. 1951
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #417.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Mamie Eisenhower · First Lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961, 1896–1979
  • Mamie Van Doren · American actress, born 1931
  • Mamie Smith · American vaudeville singer, 1883–1946
  • Mamie Till · African American schoolteacher, 1921–2003
  • Mamie Phipps Clark · American psychologist, 1917–1983

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.