Ethelle
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ethelle has been given to 65 babies in the U.S. since 1895. 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 1918, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Ethelle, 1950
1 in 700,000
Ethelle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ethelle?
Ethelle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1950, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1950
- 1 in 700,000
- 5 of 3,502,380 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 343,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1950
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 485,534 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ethelle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1950 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 485,534 children born in 1950 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ethelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ethelles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ethelle was born before 1923 — so the typical Ethelle is around 102 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 55.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 23.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 55.4% of all recorded uses (36).
Is Ethelle 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 1918 (8)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.6% average annual change
Spellings of Ethelle
Ethelle is not the most common spelling — Ethel is, with 79.9% against Ethelle's 0.02%.
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.
Ethelle around the world
Where Ethelle 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.
- France1998–1999#3,228in 1999
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Ethelle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ethelle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ethelle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.