Wash

Where Wash comes from

Clipping of Washington.
— Wiktionary's entry for Wash
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #373 among boys — 21 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #347
    26 babies named Wash — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #578.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Washington.
Namesakes

No widely known Wash turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.