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Echo

#2,339 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Possibly echo, reflected sound

Echo has been given to 5,241 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #2,339 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1984, with 182 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% girls, 8% boys all-time.

Babies named Echo, 2025

1 in 42,500

Echo over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Echo over time

In 2025, Echo went to 63% girls and 37% boys.

18882025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Echo: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly echo, reflected sound

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Echo means

Echo may mean “echo, reflected sound”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,829 girls were recorded with the name Echo between 1888 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 182 in 1984; its best national rank was #845 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,668 in 2020 to #2,339 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,833 in 2015 to #2,339 in 2025.

In the United States, 412 boys were recorded with the name Echo between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 57 in 2022; its best national rank was #2,447 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,218 in 2020 to #2,808 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,423 in 2015 to #2,808 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Echo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 42,500
78 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 20,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,339
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
29,461 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Echo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 29,461 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Echo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Echos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Echo was born before 1995 — so the typical Echo is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
20.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,404
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 20.6% of all recorded uses (993).

Is Echo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−652
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−671
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−506
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.69×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.9%
Peak was 1984 (182)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#845
1983

Spellings of Echo

Echo is the most-used spelling, taking 51.8% of the 9,320 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Echo is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Echo was most concentrated in Montana — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 21,467 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

119 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Montana1 in 5,263
  2. 2North Dakota1 in 5,556
  3. 3Utah1 in 6,250
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 7,143
  5. 5Missouri1 in 9,091
  6. 6Oregon1 in 10,000
  7. 7Colorado1 in 12,500
  8. 8Idaho1 in 12,500

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Where Echo is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Echo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,230,299 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Ohio1 in —
  3. 3Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Echo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Echo around the world

Where Echo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1974–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Echo

People whose public names include Echo, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Echo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,339
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 671
Best rank ever
#845
1983
Peak year
1984
182 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,829
Count in 2025
78

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,808
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 410
Best rank ever
#2,447
2022
Peak year
2022
57 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
412
Count in 2025
45

Names similar to Echo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Echo

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Echo, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Echo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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