Ether — unisex name

What the Data Says About Ether

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,214 babies named Ether between 1883 and 1964, spanning 82 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ether currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1964. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 48 babies received it in a single year. Ether is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 71 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ether performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 334 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Ether shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 252 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Ether in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ether 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 1,214 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.