Etienne
Etienne was given to 27 boys in 2025, #3,976 among boys’ names; 1,711 Americans have been recorded with it since 1902 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,540 Americans named Etienne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 14 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Etienne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Etienne?
#3,976 among boys’ names, 2025
Etienne rose from #5,119 in 2015 to #3,976 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 9.4 to 15.8 per million.
47 babies in 2009, the peak
Etienne peaked in 2009, when 47 babies were given it (39 boys, #3,007 among boys’ names). The 27 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #3,976 | 15.8 |
| 2024 | 28 | #3,910 | 16.3 |
| 2023 | 21 | #4,785 | 12.3 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,753 | 12.0 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,202 | 21.1 |
| 2020 | 26 | #3,949 | 15.1 |
| 2019 | 29 | #3,741 | 16.2 |
| 2018 | 29 | #3,728 | 16.0 |
| 2017 | 28 | #3,805 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 32 | #3,461 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,119 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 28 | #3,715 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 32 | #3,357 | 16.9 |
| 2012 | 32 | #3,399 | 16.9 |
| 2011 | 24 | #4,138 | 12.6 |
| 2010 | 34 | #3,261 | 17.7 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,007 | 19.7 |
| 2008 | 31 | #3,506 | 15.2 |
| 2007 | 35 | #3,207 | 16.9 |
| 2006 | 43 | #2,709 | 20.9 |
| 2005 | 34 | #3,033 | 17.0 |
| 2004 | 29 | #3,306 | 14.6 |
| 2003 | 37 | #2,688 | 18.7 |
| 2002 | 27 | #3,287 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 38 | #2,534 | 19.6 |
| 2000 | 23 | #3,563 | 11.7 |
| 1999 | 29 | #2,889 | 15.1 |
| 1998 | 35 | #2,469 | 18.3 |
| 1997 | 33 | #2,468 | 17.5 |
| 1996 | 23 | #3,138 | 12.1 |
| 1995 | 25 | #2,861 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 38 | #2,133 | 19.7 |
| 1993 | 25 | #2,800 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,136 | 10.5 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,851 | 11.4 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,655 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 19 | #3,122 | 9.5 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,402 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,494 | 11.8 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,311 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 22 | #2,376 | 11.9 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,860 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,121 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,363 | 11.6 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,706 | 9.5 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,149 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,421 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,679 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,294 | 12.2 |
| 1976 | 15 | #2,743 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 18 | #2,391 | 11.5 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,855 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 15 | #2,539 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 19 | #2,103 | 11.7 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,863 | 6.8 |
| 1970 | 11 | #2,950 | 5.9 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,708 | 3.9 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,624 | 6.3 |
| 1967 | 13 | #2,274 | 7.5 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,844 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,077 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 11 | #2,581 | 5.5 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,348 | 6.4 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,724 | 4.8 |
| 1961 | 9 | #2,959 | 4.2 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,937 | 4.2 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,176 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,896 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,657 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,630 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 5 | #3,999 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,542 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,938 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,878 | 2.7 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,866 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 11 | #2,366 | 6.3 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,108 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,713 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 8 | #2,931 | 7.7 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,419 | 4.5 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,885 | 5.4 |
| 1923 | 6 | #3,956 | 5.5 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,509 | 4.6 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,633 | 6.4 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,199 | 8.2 |
| 1918 | 10 | #2,755 | 9.9 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,026 | 8.6 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,589 | 11.7 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,189 | 40.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Etienne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,711 Americans recorded as Etienne, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 27 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Etienne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Etienne, and how old are they?
1,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 1,711 Americans ever recorded as Etienne. The median Etienne alive today is 25 years old; half are between 14 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 2,181 people named Etienne (198 women and girls, 1,983 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,408 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 84 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 187 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 356 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 547 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 363 |
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 Etienne born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #1,624 | 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 Etienne with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Etienne
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 Etienne and names like it
- Compare Etienne and CristobalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEtienne peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Etienne since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Etienne.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Etienne alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.