Handsome
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 11 babies a year in the US.
Babies a year
11
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list
Handsome by the numbers
Handsome was given to 11 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 13 babies in 2013, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Handsome
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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