Meaning not yet researched.
Ethyn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,484 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,484 in 2010; #11,085 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ethyn in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,085 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #1,484.
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Ethyn: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,484 in 2010 · most boys in one year: 110 (2010).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Ethyn, making it the 11,085th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #1,484, reached in 2010. That year also had the most boys given the name: 110. For comparison, it was #2,617 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ethyn in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 5 babies. In all, 1,541 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 681 babies named Ethyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 276 US boys were named Ethyn; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 58. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 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), Ethen (3,858 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 Ethyn 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 | — | — | 6 | #11,085 |
| 2023 | — | — | 12 | #7,028 |
| 2022 | — | — | 12 | #6,945 |
| 2021 | — | — | 24 | #4,284 |
| 2020 | — | — | 27 | #3,852 |
| 2019 | — | — | 32 | #3,515 |
| 2018 | — | — | 53 | #2,452 |
| 2017 | — | — | 58 | #2,282 |
| 2016 | — | — | 52 | #2,445 |
| 2015 | — | — | 47 | #2,617 |
| 2014 | — | — | 88 | #1,717 |
| 2013 | — | — | 91 | #1,661 |
| 2012 | — | — | 80 | #1,836 |
| 2011 | — | — | 70 | #1,975 |
| 2010 | — | — | 110 | #1,484 |
| 2009 | — | — | 97 | #1,629 |
| 2008 | — | — | 92 | #1,668 |
| 2007 | — | — | 98 | #1,598 |
| 2006 | — | — | 81 | #1,728 |
| 2005 | — | — | 80 | #1,678 |
| 2004 | — | — | 59 | #2,030 |
| 2003 | — | — | 53 | #2,111 |
| 2002 | — | — | 45 | #2,309 |
| 2001 | — | — | 39 | #2,502 |
| 2000 | — | — | 37 | #2,545 |
| 1999 | — | — | 28 | #2,961 |
| 1998 | — | — | 30 | #2,732 |
| 1997 | — | — | 13 | #4,750 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #6,697 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,128 |
| 1993 | — | — | 8 | #6,405 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,296 |
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).