Ethyl

Where Ethyl comes from

The dictionaries list Ethyl as a given name — alternative form of Ethel: a female given name from Old English — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Old English
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #628 among girls — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1892
    Peak, #413
    41 babies named Ethyl — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1932
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,957.
In the dictionary
  • Alternative form of Ethel: a female given name from Old English
Namesakes

No widely known Ethyl turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.