Ethyl
Recorded 1880–1971 · United States
Ethyl was most popular in 1915, when 92 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,265 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,395 people named Ethyl.
Ethyl over time
How old is the name Ethyl?
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Ethyl is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 82 of the 146 years since. It was last recorded in 1971.
How many people are named Ethyl?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,395 American births named Ethyl 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 225 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Ethyl in 2025?
Ethyl 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 Ethyl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Ethyl is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,395 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were 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 Ethyl?
Roughly 225 Americans named Ethyl are alive today — 9% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 80 years old, and half are between 73 and 87.
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 Ethyl 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