# Ethyl (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ethyl/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,395 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 2,395 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 15 | 2,675 |
| 1948 | 10 | 3,430 |
| 1949 | 20 | 2,233 |
| 1950 | 14 | 2,813 |
| 1952 | 10 | 3,626 |
| 1953 | 9 | 4,034 |
| 1954 | 10 | 3,798 |
| 1955 | 6 | 5,391 |
| 1956 | 5 | 6,238 |
| 1957 | 7 | 5,054 |
| 1958 | 5 | 6,376 |
| 1959 | 11 | 3,891 |
| 1961 | 6 | 6,046 |
| 1962 | 5 | 6,873 |
| 1971 | 5 | 8,716 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.