York

Where York comes from

York 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. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #706
    7 babies named York — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1882
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1884
    York Bowen born
    English composer and pianist
  5. 1944
    York Höller born
    German composer
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • York Bowen · English composer and pianist, 1884–1961
  • York Höller · German composer, born 1944
  • York Rafael · Swedish-Rwandan association football player, born 1999

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.