Ector
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ector has been given to 783 babies in the U.S. since 1919. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1995, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Ector, 2022
1 in 564,000
Ector over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ector?
Ector had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 564,000
- 6 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 291,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,139 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ector sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ector. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ectors were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ector was born before 1982 — so the typical Ector is around 43 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 19.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 23.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 705
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 19.2% of all recorded uses (150).
Is Ector 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1995 (21)
- Years since peak
- 30
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.6% average annual change
Spellings of Ector
Ector is not the most common spelling — Victor is, with 69.5% against Ector's 0.16%.
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 Ector is used
Across 1910–2025, Ector was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 121,329 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Texas1 in 100,000
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. Ector has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ector around the world
Where Ector 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 & Wales2011–2011#4,647in 2011
- Canada2021–2021#2,989in 2021
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Ector by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ector
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ector
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.