Feminine dossier · first seen 1880

Ethyl

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

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1915

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1880Peak 19152024

Peak year

1915

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

2,395

Ethyl 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 1915, when 92 girls were named Ethyl.

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 2,395 Americans have been named Ethyl and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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