Etha
Etha was last recorded in 1973, when 5 babies were given it; 1,802 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Etha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Etha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,818, in 1973; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
55 babies in 1920, the peak
Etha peaked in 1920, when 55 girls were given it, #995 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 5 | #8,818 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,713 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,813 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,468 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,439 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,077 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,462 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,088 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,332 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,541 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 6 | #5,616 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,766 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,988 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,164 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,795 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,974 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,906 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,987 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,764 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,454 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,737 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,946 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,775 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,641 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,125 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,470 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,331 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,084 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,856 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,638 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 16 | #2,048 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 28 | #1,395 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 31 | #1,304 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 30 | #1,337 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,114 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,671 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 26 | #1,496 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,819 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,625 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,726 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 39 | #1,226 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 30 | #1,494 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 38 | #1,269 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 41 | #1,215 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 43 | #1,212 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 37 | #1,289 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 36 | #1,317 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 48 | #1,101 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 55 | #995 | 0.05 |
| 1919 | 45 | #1,094 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 46 | #1,079 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 38 | #1,166 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 50 | #966 | 0.05 |
| 1915 | 52 | #921 | 0.05 |
| 1914 | 42 | #905 | 0.06 |
| 1913 | 39 | #844 | 0.06 |
| 1912 | 31 | #909 | 0.06 |
| 1911 | 28 | #814 | 0.07 |
| 1910 | 18 | #1,040 | 0.05 |
| 1909 | 26 | #800 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 19 | #923 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 13 | #1,108 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 21 | #804 | 0.07 |
| 1905 | 18 | #883 | 0.06 |
| 1904 | 13 | #1,020 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 21 | #744 | 0.08 |
| 1902 | 17 | #852 | 0.06 |
| 1901 | 20 | #727 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 31 | #635 | 0.10 |
| 1899 | 21 | #685 | 0.09 |
| 1898 | 20 | #757 | 0.08 |
| 1897 | 27 | #585 | 0.12 |
| 1896 | 19 | #734 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 14 | #872 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 31 | #520 | 0.14 |
| 1893 | 23 | #602 | 0.11 |
| 1892 | 14 | #808 | 0.07 |
| 1891 | 14 | #733 | 0.08 |
| 1890 | 10 | #884 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 16 | #647 | 0.09 |
| 1888 | 13 | #736 | 0.07 |
| 1887 | 11 | #707 | 0.08 |
| 1886 | 15 | #582 | 0.10 |
| 1885 | 14 | #587 | 0.11 |
| 1884 | 16 | #526 | 0.12 |
| 1883 | 10 | #625 | 0.09 |
| 1882 | 6 | #842 | 0.06 |
| 1881 | 7 | #704 | 0.08 |
| 1880 | 9 | #601 | 0.10 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Etha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Etha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 89 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Etha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Etha, and how old are they?
An estimated 259 Americans named Etha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (14% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 69 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 402 people named Etha (317 women and girls, 85 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 363 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,141 babies since 1880, Etha is the most given (84% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Etha
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Etha and names like it
- Compare Etha and EuthaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sEtha peaked in 1920.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Etha since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Etha.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Etha alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.