Feminine dossier · first seen 1880

Ethel

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Ethel
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 99.7% from peak

Peak era

1918

Peak rank proxy

8,075

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Greatest Generation

1880Peak 19182024

Peak year

1918

Decline from peak

99.7%

2024

All-time

278,890

Ethel once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1918, when 8,075 girls were named Ethel.

In 2024, only 27 girls were given the name.

Down 99.7% from its peak.

All told, about 278,890 Americans have been named Ethel and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 99.7% from peak

19188,075 girls named Ethel

202427 girls named Ethel

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