Ethelyn

Where Ethelyn comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Ethelyn.

Ethelyn through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #449 among girls with 14 babies in the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1897
    Ethelyn Gibson born
    American actress
  3. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #5,273.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Ethelyn Gibson · American actress, 1897–1972

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.