Ethyl
Ethyl is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 415th, in 1891.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191592 births
- Best rank
- #415in 1891
- Since 1880
- 2,395people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,395 girls have been named Ethyl in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 92 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 92 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1916, and the 1910s alone account for 27%. It has spent 41 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1915, its biggest year
Ethyl was the 689th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Ethyl
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ethelpeak 1918
- Hassiepeak 1919
- Electapeak 1918
- Ivapeak 1918
- Ottiepeak 1917
- Maepeak 1918
- Henriettepeak 1915
- Orphapeak 1917
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.