Spenser

Where Spenser comes from

Spenser 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. 1853
    Spenser Wilkinson born
    British academic and military historian
  2. 1968
    First appearance
    #3,673 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1986
    Spenser Mango born
    Olympic wrestler
  4. 1988
    Peak, #501
    333 babies named Spenser — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1992
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #831.
  6. 2023
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys 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
  • Spenser Mango · Olympic wrestler, born 1986
  • Spenser Wilkinson · British academic and military historian, 1853–1937

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.