Ether
About 1,285 American babies have been named Ether since 1883, most of them around 1921. It has not appeared in the national data since 2018. About 190 Ethers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 80.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ether boys named Ether
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,285
- Estimated living today
- 190
- Median age today
- 80
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 1,092nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1883
- Girls / boys
- 1,214 / 71
How old the living Ethers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,285 babies given the name since 1883, about 190 are alive — 15 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1945 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Ether is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ether is most concentrated in Mississippi (48.3×), Alabama (6.5×), Georgia (3.6×), Louisiana (3.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular girls’ names the year Ether peaked:
Related names
Ether against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.