Ethyle

Where Ethyle comes from

Ethyle 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1876
    Ethyle Batley born
    British actor and filmmaker
  2. 1885
    Ethyle Cooke born
    American actress
  3. 1890
    First appearance
    #1,210 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1901
    Peak, #961
    12 babies named Ethyle — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1907
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,821.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Ethyle Cooke · American actress, 1885–1949
  • Ethyle Batley · British actor and filmmaker, 1876–1917

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.