Lassie
Lassie is a fictional female Rough Collie dog and is featured in a 1938 short story by Eric Knight that was later expanded to a 1940 full-length novel, Lassie Come-Home. Knight's portrayal of Lassie bears some features in common with another fictional female collie of the same name, featured in the British writer Elizabeth Gaskell's 1859 short story "The Half Brothers".
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Meaning & Origin of Lassie
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Lassie is a fictional female Rough Collie dog and is featured in a 1938 short story by Eric Knight that was later expanded to a 1940 full-length novel, Lassie Come-Home. Knight's portrayal of Lassie bears some features in common with another fictional female collie of the same name, featured in the British writer Elizabeth Gaskell's 1859 short story "The Half Brothers".
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
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The Story of Lassie
Lassie first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1883, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1916: 42 births, good for #1,087 nationwide. About 25% of every Lassie on record arrived during the 1910s, its defining decade. Lassie last appeared in the published SSA data in 1963, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 979 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1880s to the 2020s.
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About the name Lassie
Lassie is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1883 and has accumulated 979 births in the dataset. Lassie's peak popularity came in 1916 when it ranked #1,087. Use the chart and map above to compare Lassie's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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