Newt

Where Newt comes from

Newt 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. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #600 among boys — 10 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1883
    Peak, #460
    15 babies named Newt — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1884
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #848.
  4. 1922
    Newt Arnold born
    American film director
  5. 1943
    Newt Gingrich born
    American politician and former speaker of the United States House of Representatives
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Newt Gingrich · American politician and former speaker of the United States House of Representatives, born 1943
  • Newt Arnold · American film director, 1922–2000
  • Newt V. Mills · American politician, 1899–1996

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.