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Eternity

#2,305 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Eternity has been given to 2,225 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #2,305 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 103 recorded.

Babies named Eternity, 2025

1 in 42,000

Eternity over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eternity: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eternity means

Eternity is a given name.

The naming story behind Eternity

Wikidata records Eternity as a given name. The entity identifier is Q110815483, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,225 girls were recorded with the name Eternity between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 103 in 2009; its best national rank was #1,974 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,352 in 2020 to #2,305 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,220 in 2015 to #2,305 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 Eternity?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 42,000
79 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 20,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,305
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
29,088 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eternity 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 29,088 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eternity. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eternitys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eternity was born before 2012 — so the typical Eternity is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,225
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (805).

Is Eternity 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
−98
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+47
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−85
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.93×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.7%
Peak was 2009 (103)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,974
2021

Where Eternity is used

Across 2016–2025, Eternity was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 29,373 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 14,286
  2. 2New York1 in 20,000
  3. 3Ohio1 in 25,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 25,000
  5. 5California1 in 33,333
  6. 6Florida1 in 33,333
  7. 7Georgia1 in 33,333
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 33,333

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.

Eternity around the world

Where Eternity 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
    2003–2015
    #5,730
    in 2015
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

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.

Eternity by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,305
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 47
Best rank ever
#1,974
2021
Peak year
2009
103 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,225
Count in 2025
79

Names similar to Eternity

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

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Names with a curve like Eternity

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

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Sibling names for Eternity

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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