Ether
Recorded 1883–2018 · United States
Ether was most popular in 1920, when 49 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,972 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,285 people named Ether.
Ether over time
How old is the name Ether?
Ether first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1883, which makes it about 142 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 74 of the 143 years since. It was last recorded in 2018.
How many people are named Ether?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,285 American births named Ether between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 195 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Ether in 2025?
Ether was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Ether getting more or less popular?
Ether is out of use. It averaged 6 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Ether a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Ether is mostly a girl’s name — 94.5% of the 1,285 Americans given it were girls and 5.5% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Ether?
Roughly 195 Americans named Ether are alive today — 15% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 81 years old, and half are between 74 and 88.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Ether is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org