Ether
Ether is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 813th, in 1900.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192148 births
- Best rank
- #813in 1900
- Since 1883
- 1,285people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,214 girls have been named Ether in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 48 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 48 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1920s alone account for 28%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 71 boys have also been given it, 5.5% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1921, its biggest year
Ether was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Ether
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Beaulahpeak 1921
- Verdapeak 1918
- Monniepeak 1922
- Hildapeak 1921
- Lossiepeak 1921
- Birthapeak 1926
- Eunapeak 1916
- Leoniapeak 1918
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.