Robley
Where Robley comes from
Robley 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
- 1846Robley Dunglison Evans bornUnited States Navy admiral
- 1908Robley Cook Williams bornAmerican biophysicist
- 1908Debut at its peak, #779#779 among boys with 12 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
- 1909The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,440.
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Robley Dunglison Evans · United States Navy admiral, 1846–1912
- Robley Cook Williams · American biophysicist, 1908–1995
- Robley D. Evans · American physicist, 1907–1995
- Robley Dunglison · physician, 1798–1869
- Robley Rex · American centenarian, 1901–2009
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.