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NAMES LIKE ETHEL
Same rise and fall as Ethel, around the same years.
WHERE ETHEL IS POPULAR · 2024
Fewer than 5 babies were named Ethel in any single state in 2024, so no state lists it.
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MARKET MOVERS · 10 YEARS
Ethel name popularity
Ethel has been given to 280,412 babies in the United States since 1880.
It peaked in 1918, when 8,110 babies got the name, and its best rank was #11 in 1896.
In 2025, 34 babies were named Ethel (#7,270 in the country), 99.5% below the peak. That is up 183% from 2015.
Almost every Ethel is a girl.
An estimated 36K people named Ethel are alive in the US today, with a median age of 79.
It was a top-100 name in 49 of the 146 years on record.
HOW IT WORKS
The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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