Ethelyn
Ethelyn was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 4,450 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ethelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ethelyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,363, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
168 babies in 1920, the peak
Ethelyn peaked in 1920, when 168 girls were given it, #551 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #17,363 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,302 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,168 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,559 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,874 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,580 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,094 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,427 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,596 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,171 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 10 | #4,345 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,204 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,502 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,762 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,490 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 22 | #2,469 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,193 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,856 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 23 | #2,297 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,617 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,039 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,689 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 34 | #1,644 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,924 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 26 | #1,895 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 38 | #1,504 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 40 | #1,491 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 31 | #1,595 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 26 | #1,630 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 48 | #1,132 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 41 | #1,281 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 41 | #1,253 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 47 | #1,074 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 35 | #1,250 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 38 | #1,185 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 58 | #934 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 61 | #884 | 0.06 |
| 1936 | 47 | #1,010 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 56 | #929 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 63 | #861 | 0.06 |
| 1933 | 66 | #822 | 0.07 |
| 1932 | 76 | #777 | 0.07 |
| 1931 | 76 | #772 | 0.07 |
| 1930 | 85 | #762 | 0.08 |
| 1929 | 94 | #725 | 0.08 |
| 1928 | 109 | #669 | 0.09 |
| 1927 | 111 | #691 | 0.09 |
| 1926 | 111 | #692 | 0.09 |
| 1925 | 128 | #648 | 0.11 |
| 1924 | 127 | #661 | 0.10 |
| 1923 | 119 | #682 | 0.10 |
| 1922 | 137 | #629 | 0.11 |
| 1921 | 146 | #600 | 0.12 |
| 1920 | 168 | #551 | 0.14 |
| 1919 | 99 | #706 | 0.09 |
| 1918 | 152 | #578 | 0.13 |
| 1917 | 164 | #520 | 0.15 |
| 1916 | 151 | #542 | 0.14 |
| 1915 | 147 | #515 | 0.15 |
| 1914 | 95 | #583 | 0.12 |
| 1913 | 77 | #583 | 0.12 |
| 1912 | 81 | #544 | 0.15 |
| 1911 | 69 | #497 | 0.16 |
| 1910 | 65 | #506 | 0.16 |
| 1909 | 45 | #575 | 0.13 |
| 1908 | 55 | #491 | 0.16 |
| 1907 | 42 | #565 | 0.13 |
| 1906 | 38 | #573 | 0.13 |
| 1905 | 33 | #611 | 0.11 |
| 1904 | 43 | #502 | 0.16 |
| 1903 | 30 | #598 | 0.11 |
| 1902 | 31 | #596 | 0.12 |
| 1901 | 24 | #650 | 0.10 |
| 1900 | 29 | #661 | 0.10 |
| 1899 | 26 | #608 | 0.11 |
| 1898 | 39 | #495 | 0.15 |
| 1897 | 26 | #598 | 0.11 |
| 1896 | 28 | #580 | 0.12 |
| 1895 | 27 | #580 | 0.12 |
| 1894 | 33 | #500 | 0.15 |
| 1893 | 18 | #695 | 0.08 |
| 1892 | 15 | #772 | 0.07 |
| 1891 | 20 | #600 | 0.11 |
| 1890 | 9 | #961 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 13 | #733 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 18 | #597 | 0.10 |
| 1887 | 14 | #616 | 0.10 |
| 1886 | 19 | #514 | 0.13 |
| 1885 | 15 | #562 | 0.11 |
| 1884 | 11 | #653 | 0.09 |
| 1883 | 12 | #566 | 0.11 |
| 1882 | 15 | #478 | 0.14 |
| 1881 | 11 | #518 | 0.12 |
| 1880 | 14 | #456 | 0.15 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ethelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ethelyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 94 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ethelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ethelyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 639 Americans named Ethelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (14% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 70 and 86. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 991 people named Ethelyn (991 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 939 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
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 Ethelyn born?
The states with the most babies named Ethelyn are New York, Michigan and Maine, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Maine is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 210 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 169 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Maine | 104 | not ranked | 3.9× |
| Illinois | 95 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 91 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 86 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 81 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Wisconsin | 78 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Minnesota | 48 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 46 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Ethelyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ethelyn is most over-represented in Maine: since 1910 it was given 3.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Ethelyn 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,765 babies since 1880, Ethelyn is the most given (77% 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 Ethelyn
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 Ethelyn and names like it
- Compare Ethelyn and EthlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sEthelyn peaked in 1920.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ethelyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Ethelyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ethelyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.