Ethaniel
#6,224 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ethaniel has been given to 1,006 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #6,224 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 61 recorded.
Babies named Ethaniel, 2025
1 in 237,000
Ethaniel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ethaniel?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 122,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,224
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ethaniel sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ethaniel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ethaniels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ethaniel was born before 2010 — so the typical Ethaniel is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 41.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,006
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 41.8% of all recorded uses (421).
Is Ethaniel 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
- −1,754
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,634
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,124
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.38×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 23.0%
- Peak was 2009 (61)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.2% average annual change
Spellings of Ethaniel
Ethaniel is not the most common spelling — Nathaniel is, with 99.4% against Ethaniel's 0.35%.
Where Ethaniel is used
Across 1910–2025, Ethaniel was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 237,569 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Arizona1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in 100,000
- 3Texas1 in 100,000
- 4Florida1 in —
- 5Illinois1 in —
- 6New York1 in —
- 7Washington1 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. Ethaniel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ethaniel around the world
Where Ethaniel 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 & Wales2000–2025#5,137in 2025
- France2000–2025#4,421in 2025
- Canada2002–2022#1,972in 2022
- South Australia1994–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ethaniel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ethaniel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ethaniel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.