Pleasant

Where Pleasant comes from

Pleasant 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. 1814
    Pleasant A. Hackleman born
    Union Army general
  2. 1829
    Pleasant B. Tully born
    American politician
  3. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #425 among boys with 17 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  4. 1883
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #720.
  5. 1992
    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
  • Pleasant B. Tully · American politician, 1829–1897
  • Pleasant A. Hackleman · Union Army general, 1814–1862
  • Pleasant T. Chapman · American politician, 1854–1931
  • Pleasant Moorman Miller · American politician, 1800–1849
  • Pleasant Bridgewater · Bahamian politician, born 1960

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.