Volney

Where Volney comes from

Volney 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. 1809
    Volney Howard born
    American politician
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #571 among boys with 11 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1881
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1928
    Volney Peters born
    American football player
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Volney Howard · American politician, 1809–1889
  • Volney Peters · American football player, 1928–2015
  • Volney Morgan Spalding · American botanist, 1849–1918
  • Volney F. Warner · United States general, 1926–2019

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.