Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1884. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pliny through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15
- 15 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1884
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1919. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Pliny’s family of names
In English usage, Pliny has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Pliniusz. In English usage, Pliny as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the French form PLINE.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Pliny
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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