Ethaniel
Ethaniel was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,224 among boys’ names; 1,006 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ethaniel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ethaniel?
#6,224 among boys’ names, 2025
Ethaniel fell from #3,100 in 2015 to #6,224 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 19.3 to 8.2 per million.
61 babies in 2009, the peak
Ethaniel peaked in 2009, when 61 boys were given it, #2,190 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,224 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 23 | #4,470 | 13.3 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,935 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 26 | #4,120 | 14.9 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,821 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,590 | 12.2 |
| 2019 | 28 | #3,827 | 15.6 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,554 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 27 | #3,909 | 14.6 |
| 2016 | 44 | #2,737 | 23.2 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #3,100 | 19.3 |
| 2014 | 49 | #2,519 | 25.5 |
| 2013 | 53 | #2,373 | 28.0 |
| 2012 | 49 | #2,528 | 25.8 |
| 2011 | 51 | #2,449 | 26.9 |
| 2010 | 52 | #2,415 | 27.1 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,190 | 30.8 |
| 2008 | 58 | #2,275 | 28.4 |
| 2007 | 37 | #3,104 | 17.8 |
| 2006 | 46 | #2,598 | 22.4 |
| 2005 | 47 | #2,441 | 23.5 |
| 2004 | 35 | #2,902 | 17.6 |
| 2003 | 42 | #2,483 | 21.3 |
| 2002 | 28 | #3,206 | 14.4 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,164 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,811 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,843 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,050 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,246 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,454 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,287 | 2.6 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,740 | 3.5 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,288 | 2.5 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,669 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ethaniel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ethaniel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ethaniel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ethaniel, and how old are they?
An estimated 994 Americans named Ethaniel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 681 people named Ethaniel (3 women and girls, 678 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 879 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Where are babies named Ethaniel born?
The states with the most babies named Ethaniel are California, Texas and Arizona, with 88% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 117 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 104 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 16 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 14 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ethaniel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,102 babies since 1880, Ethaniel is the most given (91% 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 Ethaniel
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 Ethaniel and names like it
- Compare Ethaniel and EthanaelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEthaniel peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ethaniel since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Ethaniel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ethaniel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.