Shafter
Where Shafter comes from
Shafter 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
- 1898Debut at its peak, #573#573 among boys with 14 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
- 1899The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
No widely known Shafter 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.