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Ethelbert vs Ethelene

American parents have registered 1,837 Ethelenes since 1880, against 183 Ethelberts. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ethelbert against Ethelene, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ethelbert Ethelene

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 65 years in which either name was published, Ethelene for 62 years and Ethelbert for 3 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Ethelbert Ethelene
Total US births 1831,837
Most in one year 1466
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 11520
Median age today 7778
Peak year 19161925
Best rank 2,043rd boys913th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18871901
Girls / boys 5 / 1781,837 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ethelbert and Ethelene.