Ethyl — girls' name

What the Data Says About Ethyl

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,395 babies named Ethyl between 1880 and 1971, spanning 92 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ethyl currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1971. The name reached its historical peak in 1915, when 92 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ethyl performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 654 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Ethyl shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 93 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Ethyl in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ethyl 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 2,395 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.