girls:
1.2k births since 1883
#4505 (21st percentile)
boys:
71 births since 1914
#4515 (1st percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1883
#6457 (17th percentile)
The name Ether is the #6,457 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,285 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 16.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,505 (21.2% percentile) for all time with 1,214 births since 1883. For boys, it ranks #4,515 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 71 births since 1914.
Ether first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for girls and 1914 for boys). Birth data for Ether is available in 74 out of the 136 years between 1883 and 2018 (71 years for girls and 12 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ether has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 94.5% of all recorded births being female. In 2018, 0.0% of babies named Ether were girls. Interestingly, until around 2013, the name was more popular for girls (95.8% girls from 1883 to 2012), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 2013 to 2018).
For girls, Ether reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 7.1% percentile (ranked #562) with 38 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 66 births per million (ranked 4.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1964.
For boys, Ether reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #536) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ether".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ether. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.5% confident that Ether is pronounced as EE-ther, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EE-ther, at 17.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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