# Etienne (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/etienne/  
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 | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,711 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,620 / 91 (5% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 780, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 6 | 7,998 |
| 1985 | 7 | 8,619 |
| 1986 | 5 | 11,493 |
| 1987 | 5 | 11,872 |
| 1988 | 5 | 12,396 |
| 1990 | 7 | 10,558 |
| 1994 | 6 | 12,273 |
| 1996 | 7 | 10,934 |
| 1998 | 5 | 14,902 |
| 2001 | 5 | 16,129 |
| 2003 | 8 | 11,657 |
| 2004 | 7 | 13,193 |
| 2009 | 8 | 12,827 |
| 2020 | 5 | 15,858 |
| 2022 | 5 | 16,066 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 24 | 4,140 |
| 2012 | 32 | 3,402 |
| 2013 | 32 | 3,359 |
| 2014 | 28 | 3,718 |
| 2015 | 18 | 5,122 |
| 2016 | 32 | 3,462 |
| 2017 | 28 | 3,809 |
| 2018 | 29 | 3,732 |
| 2019 | 29 | 3,744 |
| 2020 | 26 | 3,952 |
| 2021 | 37 | 3,204 |
| 2022 | 21 | 4,757 |
| 2023 | 21 | 4,789 |
| 2024 | 28 | 3,912 |
| 2025 | 27 | 3,977 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 3 | 3,912 |
| 2001 | 6 | 2,466 |
| 2003 | 6 | 2,727 |
| 2004 | 5 | 3,197 |
| 2006 | 7 | 2,781 |
| 2007 | 5 | 3,667 |
| 2008 | 7 | 3,005 |
| 2009 | 6 | 3,422 |
| 2010 | 9 | 2,589 |
| 2011 | 6 | 3,549 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,969 |
| 2013 | 3 | 5,742 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2015 | 3 | 5,730 |
| 2017 | 5 | 4,063 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 29 | 958 |
| 2012 | 37 | 837 |
| 2013 | 32 | 910 |
| 2014 | 38 | 805 |
| 2015 | 26 | 1,074 |
| 2016 | 35 | 884 |
| 2017 | 30 | 996 |
| 2018 | 22 | 1,194 |
| 2019 | 26 | 1,056 |
| 2020 | 15 | 1,548 |
| 2021 | 26 | 1,078 |
| 2022 | 30 | 993 |
| 2023 | 26 | 1,108 |
| 2024 | 18 | 1,460 |
| 2025 | 28 | 1,066 |

## People named Etienne

- Étienne de La Boétie, French judge, writer and philosopher (1530–1563)
- Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French academic
- Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition" (1772-1844)
- Étienne-Louis Malus, French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician (1775-1812)
- Étienne Gilson, French historian and philosopher (1884-1978)
- Étienne Lenoir, Belgian engineer (1822-1900)
- Étienne Cabet, French philosopher (1788–1856)
- Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (1730-1783)
- Étienne Capoue, French footballer (born 1988)
- Étienne Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (1716–1791)
- Étienne Jodelle, French dramatist and poet
- Étienne Mourrut, French politician (1939-2014)

## 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.