Éthel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Éthel is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 41,868 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: From English Ethel, from Old English.
- SESweden1 in 3.7K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 5K
- USUnited States1 in 7.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
41,868 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ethel in US United States, UY Uruguay, BR Brazil.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- EnglishEthel(measured from records)
- OldEnglish(measured from records)
From English Ethel, from Old English.
Cited for this meaning 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Éthel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 41,868 | 1 in 7.9K | 42K | Ethel | 195 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,739 | 1 in 3.7K | 2.7K | — | 13 |
| UY Uruguay | #171 | 675 | 1 in 5K | 675 | Ethel | 31 |
| BR Brazil | — | 494 | 1 in 429K | 513 | Ethel | 65 |
| FI Finland | — | 340 | 1 in 16K | 1.2K | — | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 320 | 1 in 16K | 320 | — | 26 |
| GY Guyana | — | 63 | 1 in 12K | 63 | — | — |
41,868 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Éthel mean, and where does it come from?
- From English Ethel, from Old English. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Is Éthel a male or female name?
- Éthel is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Éthel?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 42 thousand people named Éthel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ethel. After it come Sweden, Uruguay, Brazil and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Éthel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Éthel is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 3.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Éthel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 41,868 people named Éthel in 2020, about 1 in 7.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Éthel compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Éthel is the 171st most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Éthel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A9thelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Éthel” — ranked 1018th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.