Ethen

Where Ethen comes from

Ethen hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1917
    First appearance
    #3,545 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1993
    Ethen Sampson born
    South African association football player
  3. 1998
    Ethen Frank born
    American ice hockey player
  4. 2004
    Peak, #884
    196 babies named Ethen — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,677.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Ethen Frank · American ice hockey player, born 1998
  • Ethen Sampson · South African association football player, born 1993

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.