Ethen
Ethen is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 26 births. Its best rank was 886th, in 2004.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 260.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2009233 births
- Best rank
- #886in 2004
- Since 1917
- 3,841people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,841 boys have been named Ethen in the United States since 1917, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 233 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2007, and the 2000s alone account for 49%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2009, its biggest year
Ethen was the 894th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2009 were Jacob, Ethan, Michael, Alexander and William. See all of 2009.
Names that rose and fell with Ethen
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gaigepeak 2007
- Logenpeak 2003
- Elijiahpeak 2008
- Camrinpeak 2006
- Camrenpeak 2006
- Camerenpeak 2008
- Jashaunpeak 2005
- Brendynpeak 2009
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.