Meaning not yet researched.
Ethen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #886 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #886 in 2004; #5,456 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ethen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,456 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #886.
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Ethen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #886 in 2004 · most boys in one year: 233 (2009).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Ethen, making it the 5,456th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,345 places from #4,111 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 26 boys named Ethen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #886, reached in 2004. The most boys given the name in a single year was 233, in 2009. For comparison, it was #1,682 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ethen in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 6 babies. In all, 3,858 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,877 babies named Ethen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 392 US boys were named Ethen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 90. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ethan (488,144 babies since 1880), Eithan (8,754 babies since 1880), Ethyn (1,541 babies since 1880) and Eathan (1,214 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ethen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 17 | #5,456 |
| 2024 | — | — | 26 | #4,111 |
| 2023 | — | — | 14 | #6,305 |
| 2022 | — | — | 35 | #3,358 |
| 2021 | — | — | 24 | #4,283 |
| 2020 | — | — | 38 | #3,036 |
| 2019 | — | — | 30 | #3,657 |
| 2018 | — | — | 51 | #2,522 |
| 2017 | — | — | 67 | #2,075 |
| 2016 | — | — | 90 | #1,727 |
| 2015 | — | — | 93 | #1,682 |
| 2014 | — | — | 133 | #1,319 |
| 2013 | — | — | 137 | #1,271 |
| 2012 | — | — | 170 | #1,096 |
| 2011 | — | — | 195 | #997 |
| 2010 | — | — | 183 | #1,053 |
| 2009 | — | — | 233 | #894 |
| 2008 | — | — | 227 | #911 |
| 2007 | — | — | 210 | #943 |
| 2006 | — | — | 194 | #959 |
| 2005 | — | — | 191 | #919 |
| 2004 | — | — | 196 | #886 |
| 2003 | — | — | 187 | #897 |
| 2002 | — | — | 176 | #914 |
| 2001 | — | — | 142 | #1,036 |
| 2000 | — | — | 121 | #1,145 |
| 1999 | — | — | 108 | #1,190 |
| 1998 | — | — | 76 | #1,466 |
| 1997 | — | — | 80 | #1,379 |
| 1996 | — | — | 48 | #1,880 |
| 1995 | — | — | 24 | #2,954 |
| 1994 | — | — | 32 | #2,409 |
| 1993 | — | — | 41 | #1,973 |
| 1992 | — | — | 37 | #2,104 |
| 1991 | — | — | 43 | #1,843 |
| 1990 | — | — | 74 | #1,291 |
| 1989 | — | — | 41 | #1,836 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,310 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #4,840 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #5,729 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,550 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,108 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,136 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,693 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,121 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,573 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,426 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,160 |
| 1917 | — | — | 6 | #3,689 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).