Ethelwyn
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ethelwyn has been given to 74 babies in the U.S. since 1899. 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 1917, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Ethelwyn, 1938
1 in 369,000
Ethelwyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ethelwyn?
Ethelwyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1938, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1938
- 1 in 369,000
- 6 of 2,212,569 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 184,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1938
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,607 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ethelwyn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1938 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 255,607 children born in 1938 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ethelwyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ethelwyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ethelwyn was born before 1920 — so the typical Ethelwyn is around 105 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 35.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 93.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 35.1% of all recorded uses (26).
Is Ethelwyn 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1917 (8)
- Years since peak
- 108
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.4% average annual change
Spellings of Ethelwyn
Ethelwyn is not the most common spelling — Ethelyn is, with 77.1% against Ethelwyn's 1.3%.
Ethelwyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ethelwyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ethelwyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.