Silver

Where Silver comes from

As a surname, anglicised from the German Jewish ornamental surname Silber.
— Wiktionary's entry for Silver
  • English
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,134 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1935
    Peak, #2,305
    13 babies named Silver — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1942
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1974
    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.
  5. 1978
    Silver Meikar born
    Estonian politician
  6. 1983
    Silver Leppik born
    Estonian basketball player
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name from English from the metal, or transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Silver Meikar · Estonian politician, born 1978
  • Silver Leppik · Estonian basketball player, born 1983
  • Silver Donald Cameron · Canadian writer, 1937–2020
  • Silver King · American baseball player, 1868–1938
  • Silver RavenWolf · American author, born 1956

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.