Captain
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 25 babies a year in the US.
Captain by the numbers
Captain was given to 25 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 31 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Captain
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Captain. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Castin18 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Captain
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