Ethyn
Ethyn was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,081 among boys’ names; 1,541 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,520 Americans named Ethyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ethyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ethyn?
#11,081 among boys’ names, 2025
Ethyn fell from #2,616 in 2015 to #11,081 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 24.5 to 3.5 per million.
110 babies in 2010, the peak
Ethyn peaked in 2010, when 110 boys were given it, #1,484 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,081 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,023 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,940 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 24 | #4,280 | 13.7 |
| 2020 | 27 | #3,849 | 15.6 |
| 2019 | 32 | #3,512 | 17.8 |
| 2018 | 53 | #2,451 | 29.2 |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,281 | 31.3 |
| 2016 | 52 | #2,445 | 27.4 |
| 2015 | 47 | #2,616 | 24.5 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 88 | #1,717 | 45.8 |
| 2013 | 91 | #1,660 | 48.1 |
| 2012 | 80 | #1,835 | 42.2 |
| 2011 | 70 | #1,974 | 36.9 |
| 2010 | 110 | #1,484 | 57.3 |
| 2009 | 97 | #1,628 | 48.9 |
| 2008 | 92 | #1,668 | 45.1 |
| 2007 | 98 | #1,598 | 47.2 |
| 2006 | 81 | #1,728 | 39.4 |
| 2005 | 80 | #1,675 | 40.1 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,026 | 29.7 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,107 | 26.8 |
| 2002 | 45 | #2,305 | 23.2 |
| 2001 | 39 | #2,497 | 20.1 |
| 2000 | 37 | #2,540 | 18.8 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,957 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 30 | #2,729 | 15.7 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,744 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,690 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,121 | 3.2 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,399 | 4.1 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,289 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ethyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ethyn has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ethyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ethyn, and how old are they?
1,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,541 Americans ever recorded as Ethyn. The median Ethyn alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,198 people named Ethyn (2 women and girls, 1,196 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,453 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 26 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 998 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 498 |
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 Ethyn born?
The states with the most babies named Ethyn are California, Texas and Indiana, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 122 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 108 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 27 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 21 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 13 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Ethyn 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, Ethyn is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 11,701 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Ethyn
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 Ethyn and names like it
- Compare Ethyn and EthanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEthyn peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ethyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Ethyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ethyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.