Echo

#2,326 for girls in 2025, 78 births · #2,798 for boys in 2025, 45 births
Given to girls 92.1% of the time

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Peak · girls
1984 · 182 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
4,829
since 1888

Echo over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201888peak #845, 1984girlsboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#2,32678#2,79845
2024#1,681121#3,45533
2023#1,557136#3,56632
2022#1,648128#2,43857
2021#1,419152#3,12138
2020#1,668123#3,20235
2019#2,01195#4,33723
2018#1,99798#4,61021
2017#2,48772#4,22424
2016#1,956102#5,78915
2015#1,831113#6,32413
2014#2,13989#5,99714
2013#2,66166#5,92314
2012#2,51672#7,55910
2011#2,58969#6,25613
2010#2,72665#10,7666
2009#3,04756#10,9946
2008#3,15853#9,0198
2007#2,71067—
2006#3,46946—
2005#3,25747—
2004#2,71160—
2003#2,77156—
2002#2,88851—
2001#2,76653—
2000#2,27768—
1999#2,36862—
1998#2,01374—
1997#2,30958—
1996#2,71445#9,0155
1995#2,42153—
1994#2,25558—
1993#2,35154—
1992#2,22060—
1991#2,01468—
1990#1,98968—
1989#1,80474—
1988#1,51389—
1987#1,77666—
1986#1,314101—
1985#1,207115—
1984#845182—
1983#845181—
1982#1,80760—
1981#1,80961—
1980#1,73564—
1979#1,54375—
1978#3,00926—
1977#2,78029—
1976#2,13540—
1975#1,78052—
1974#2,21336—
1973#2,50629—
1972#2,13536—
1971#1,93744—
1970#2,45030—
1969#2,58526—
1968#3,16917—
1967#4,30010—
1966#3,04017—
1965#4,4949—
1964#3,37915—
1963#3,17616—
1962#4,01111—
1961#4,00911—
1960#2,98917—
1959#3,43613—
1958#3,08515—
1957#3,69611—
1956#2,82617—
1955#3,09514—
1954#3,32512—
1953#2,92114—
1952#2,67116—
1951#2,47417—
1950——
1949#2,99912—
1948#2,58915—
1947#4,0078—
1946#2,73913—
1945#4,5565—
1944——
1943#3,04010—
1942——
1941#3,5597—
1940#3,2088—
1939#3,1458—
1938#4,3425—
1937——
1936#4,1815—
1935——
1934#4,2865—
1933——
1932#3,5687—
1931#4,3315—
1930——
1929#3,3948—
1928#2,49713—
1927#3,2849—
1926#4,8515—
1925#4,4266—
1924#2,40915—
1923#2,16917—
1922#1,83622—
1921#2,76212—
1920#2,07918—
1919#1,85520—
1918#2,10217—
1917#2,31614—
1916#1,68921—
1915#2,68810—
1914#2,4349—
1913#2,03410—
1912#1,9819—
1911#1,6569—
1910#1,6349—
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1907#1,5128—
1906#1,7276—
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1903#1,7925—
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1901#1,6795—
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1897#1,5555—
1896——
1895#1,5925—
1894#1,2377—
1893#1,0918—
1892#1,4505—
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1888#1,2765—
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First appearance
1888

The first year at least five girls were named Echo! It came in at #1,276, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1888–1892, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Echo is popular in 1888

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Echo
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 645 spots since 2024 (#1,681 → #2,326)
  • 658 spots since 2020 (#1,668 → #2,326)
  • 495 spots since 2015 (#1,831 → #2,326)
  • Biggest jump: 962 spots in 1983 (#1,807 → #845)
  • Biggest drop: 362 spots in 1985 (#845 → #1,207)
Rise & fade · girls
96 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1888
  • Peaked 1984 at #845 (182 births)
  • Births halved by 1987, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1983–1984
Share of babies · girls
1 in 9,230
  • Highest: 1 in 9,230 girls born in 1983 were named Echo (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 20,606 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #845 in 1984, was only 1 in 9,252 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1980s
  • 20.6% of all girls named Echo (993) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
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  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s5#1,276 (1888)#1,276
1890s30#1,091 (1893)#1,385
1900s24#1,512 (1907)#1,678
1910s128#1,634 (1910)#2,039
1920s125#1,836 (1922)#2,971
1930s35#3,145 (1939)#3,976
1940s78#2,589 (1948)#3,337
1950s129#2,474 (1951)#3,059
1960s149#2,585 (1969)#3,515
1970s397#1,543 (1979)#2,249
1980s993#845 (1984)#1,466
1990s600#1,989 (1990)#2,265
2000s557#2,277 (2000)#2,905
2010s841#1,831 (2015)#2,291
2020s738#1,419 (2021)#1,717

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Echo in 1888

girls
#1,276
5 births · 1 in 35,724 girls

Top girls' names in 1888

  1. #1Mary11,754
  2. #2Anna4,982
  3. #3Elizabeth3,224
  4. #4Emma3,087
  5. #5Margaret2,904
  6. #6Minnie2,654
  7. #7Bertha2,450
  8. #8Florence2,444
  9. #9Ethel2,374
  10. #10Bessie2,278
  11. #1,276Echo5
More about 1888

girls

178,622 girls got a published name in 1888; 1 in 35,724 of them was named Echo, which outranked 13.4% of the 1,474 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Echo
  1. #1,136Vita6
  2. #1,136Willia6
  3. #1,136Zillah6
  4. #1,276Echo5
  5. #1,276Adel5
  6. #1,276Adelle5
  7. #1,276Adina5

Tied with 198 names at #1,276; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1887
Risers
  1. ↑ 535Zilpha#1,147 → #612
  2. ↑ 511Eudora#1,147 → #636
  3. ↑ 478Lorraine#1,036 → #558
  4. ↑ 457Dillie#1,147 → #690
  5. ↑ 457Leanna#1,147 → #690
Fallers
  1. ↓ 643Anabel#633 → #1,276
  2. ↓ 583Tennessee#693 → #1,276
  3. ↓ 576Diana#560 → #1,136
  4. ↓ 576Hope#560 → #1,136
  5. ↓ 550Margaretha#586 → #1,136

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1888 →