Feminine dossier · first seen 1880

Ethelyn

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

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1920

Peak rank proxy

168

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1880Peak 19202024

Peak year

1920

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

4,450

Ethelyn has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Greatest Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1920, when 168 girls were named Ethelyn.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 4,450 Americans have been named Ethelyn and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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