Ethelyn — girls' name

What the Data Says About Ethelyn

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,450 babies named Ethelyn between 1880 and 2014, spanning 135 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ethelyn currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 168 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ethelyn performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,250 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Ethelyn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 210 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Michigan and Maine. In total, SSA state-level files list Ethelyn in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ethelyn in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 4,450 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.