Vere

Where Vere comes from

Vere 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. 1884
    First appearance
    #971 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1888
    Peak, #815
    7 babies named Vere — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1889
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1892
    Vere Gordon Childe born
    British prehistorian archaeologist
  5. 1910
    Vere Bird born
    Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda
  6. 1913
    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
  • Vere Gordon Childe · British prehistorian archaeologist, 1892–1957
  • Vere Bird · Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, 1910–1999
  • Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough · British politician, 1880–1956
  • Vere St. Leger Goold · Irish tennis player, 1853–1909
  • Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere · British Baron and politician, 1699–1781

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.