Squire

Where Squire comes from

Squire 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
  1. 1804
    Squire Whipple born
    American bridging engineer
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #465 among boys with 15 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #765.
  4. 1943
    Squire Fridell born
    American actor
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Squire Fridell · American actor, born 1943
  • Squire Whipple · American bridging engineer, 1804–1888
  • Squire Yarrow · British marathon runner, 1905–1984
  • Squire Bancroft · English actor-manager, 1841–1926
  • Squire Boone · American frontiersman, 1744–1815

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.