Dabney
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 9 babies a year in the US.
Dabney by the numbers
Dabney was given to 9 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 15 babies in 1973, making it a 1970s name.
What we can tell you about Dabney
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.
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