girls:
2.4k births since 1880
#3536 (38th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1880
#5427 (30th percentile)
The name Ethyl is the #5,427 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,395 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 29.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,536 (38.1% percentile) for all time with 2,395 births since 1880.
Ethyl has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Ethyl is available in 82 out of the 92 years between 1880 and 1971. 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.
For girls, Ethyl reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 15.4% percentile (ranked #473) with 90 births per million. The name was most common in 1888, with 185 births per million (ranked 10.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1971.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ethyl".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Ethyl. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.4% confident that Ethyl is pronounced as EH-thuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-thihl, at 9.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like EH1 TH AH0 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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