Nimrod

Where Nimrod comes from

Nimrod 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, and the peak
    #909 among boys with 5 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1881
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1929
    Nimrod Greenwood born
    Australian rower
  4. 1973
    Nimrod Aloni born
    Israeli military officer
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Nimrod Greenwood · Australian rower, 1929–2016
  • Nimrod Aloni · Israeli military officer, born 1973
  • Nimrod Mashiah · Israeli windsurfer, born 1988
  • Nimrod Sheffer · Israeli military officer, born 1961
  • Nimrod Mkono · Tanzanian politician, 1943–2023

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.