Ethen
- #5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
- Peak · boys
- 2004 · 196 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,858since 1917
Ethen over time
Rank among boys' names. Ethen has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it. Not on the chart: 6 boys in 1917, 5 boys in 1929, 6 boys in 1948 (see the data table).
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 2024 | #4,072 | 26 |
| 2023 | #6,220 | 14 |
| 2022 | #3,344 | 35 |
| 2021 | #4,247 | 24 |
| 2020 | #3,025 | 38 |
| 2019 | #3,636 | 30 |
| 2018 | #2,507 | 51 |
| 2017 | #2,065 | 67 |
| 2016 | #1,724 | 90 |
| 2015 | #1,677 | 93 |
| 2014 | #1,318 | 133 |
| 2013 | #1,269 | 137 |
| 2012 | #1,095 | 170 |
| 2011 | #995 | 195 |
| 2010 | #1,053 | 183 |
| 2009 | #893 | 233 |
| 2008 | #911 | 227 |
| 2007 | #943 | 210 |
| 2006 | #958 | 194 |
| 2005 | #919 | 191 |
| 2004 | #884 | 196 |
| 2003 | #897 | 187 |
| 2002 | #913 | 176 |
| 2001 | #1,035 | 142 |
| 2000 | #1,142 | 121 |
| 1999 | #1,189 | 108 |
| 1998 | #1,465 | 76 |
| 1997 | #1,378 | 80 |
| 1996 | #1,872 | 48 |
| 1995 | #2,923 | 24 |
| 1994 | #2,392 | 32 |
| 1993 | #1,969 | 41 |
| 1992 | #2,085 | 37 |
| 1991 | #1,823 | 43 |
| 1990 | #1,287 | 74 |
| 1989 | #1,831 | 41 |
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| 1987 | #6,951 | 5 |
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| 1985 | #4,698 | 8 |
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| 1981 | #5,468 | 6 |
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| 1979 | #4,403 | 8 |
| 1978 | #5,772 | 5 |
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| 1976 | #4,935 | 6 |
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| 1973 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1971 | #4,375 | 6 |
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| 1948 | #3,316 | 6 |
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| 1929 | #3,959 | 5 |
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| 1917 | #3,545 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ethen! It came in at #3,545, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1947, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ethen is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Ethen in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Ethen
- 2,374 spots since 2020 (#3,025 → #5,399)
- Biggest jump: 122 spots in 2002
- Biggest drop: 160 spots in 2010
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 2004 at #884 (196 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 2002–2009
- Highest: 1 in 8,513 boys born in 2009 were named Ethen (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,475 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #884 in 2004, was only 1 in 10,127 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 48.7% of all boys named Ethen (1,877) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | #3,545 (1917) | #3,545 |
| 1920s | 5 | #3,959 (1929) | #3,959 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 6 | #3,316 (1948) | #3,316 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 38 | #3,963 (1972) | #4,659 |
| 1980s | 60 | #1,831 (1989) | #4,737 |
| 1990s | 563 | #1,189 (1999) | #1,838 |
| 2000s | 1,877 | #884 (2004) | #950 |
| 2010s | 1,149 | #995 (2011) | #1,734 |
| 2020s | 154 | #3,025 (2020) | #4,385 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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