Ethen
Ethen was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,454 among boys’ names; 3,858 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,780 Americans named Ethen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 15 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ethen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ethen?
#5,454 among boys’ names, 2025
Ethen fell from #1,682 in 2015 to #5,454 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 48.5 to 10.0 per million.
233 babies in 2009, the peak
Ethen peaked in 2009, when 233 boys were given it, #894 among boys’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,454 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 26 | #4,108 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,300 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 35 | #3,356 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 24 | #4,279 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,035 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 30 | #3,654 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 51 | #2,521 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,075 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 90 | #1,727 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 93 | #1,682 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 133 | #1,319 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 137 | #1,271 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 170 | #1,096 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 195 | #997 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 183 | #1,053 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 233 | #894 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 227 | #911 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 210 | #943 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 194 | #959 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 191 | #919 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 196 | #885 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 187 | #896 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 176 | #913 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 142 | #1,035 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 121 | #1,143 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 108 | #1,188 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 76 | #1,463 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 80 | #1,376 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 48 | #1,876 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 24 | #2,949 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 32 | #2,404 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 41 | #1,968 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 37 | #2,099 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 43 | #1,837 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 74 | #1,286 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 41 | #1,831 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,303 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,835 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,727 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,548 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,105 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,134 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,691 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,119 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,571 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,424 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,158 | under 0.01 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,688 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ethen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ethen has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ethen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ethen, and how old are they?
3,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,858 Americans ever recorded as Ethen. The median Ethen alive today is 19 years old; half are between 15 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 3,408 people named Ethen (25 women and girls, 3,383 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,655 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 34 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 344 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,650 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 749 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Ethen born?
The states with the most babies named Ethen are California, Texas and New York, with 46% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 441 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 370 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 136 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 133 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 93 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 80 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 77 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 74 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 73 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 70 | not ranked | 0.9× |
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 Ethen 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 505,218 babies since 1880, Ethen is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 11,701 babies (<1%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Ethen
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 Ethen and names like it
- Compare Ethen and EthanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEthen peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ethen since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Ethen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ethen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.