Rastus
Where Rastus comes from
Thought to be derived from Erastus. Despite paucity of actual usage, the name became associated with African-American men because of a character in the first Uncle Remus book by Joel Chandler Harris.
Along the way
- 1887Debut at its peak, #921#921 among boys with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
- 1888The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
- A male given name of American usage.
Namesakes
No widely known Rastus turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.
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.