Ethelreda

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Ethelreda has been given to 69 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 1923, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Ethelreda, 1932

1 in 422,000

Ethelreda over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Ethelreda?

Ethelreda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1932, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1932
1 in 422,000
5 of 2,111,250 births
Among girls only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1932
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
292,683 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ethelreda 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 1932 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 292,683 children born in 1932 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ethelreda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ethelredas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ethelreda was born before 1927 — so the typical Ethelreda is around 98 today.

Median birth year
1927
About 98 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
68.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1920s — 68.1% of all recorded uses (47).

Is Ethelreda 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 1923 (12)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,783
1923

Where Ethelreda is used

Across 1910–2025, Ethelreda was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,752,106 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in —

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. Ethelreda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ethelreda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,783
1923
Peak year
1923
12 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
1932
All-time count
69
Count in 2025
Under 5

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