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Etha

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Etha is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 520th, in 1894.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
192055 births
Best rank
#520in 1894
Since 1880
1,802people given the name
Babies named Etha, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,802 girls have been named Etha in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 55 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 55 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1910s alone account for 22%. It has spent 35 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Etha
1880s117
1890s193
1900s199
1910s389
1920s389
1930s221
1940s136
1950s96
1960s52
1970s10

In 1920, its biggest year

Etha was the 995th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.

Names that rose and fell with Etha

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.