girls:
91 births since 1974
#5625 (2nd percentile)
boys:
1.6k births since 1902
#3096 (32nd percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1902
#6093 (21st percentile)
The name Etienne is the #6,093 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,656 recorded births since 1902. This represents the 21.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,096 (32.5% percentile) for all time with 1,565 births since 1902. For girls, it ranks #5,625 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 91 births since 1974.
Etienne first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1902 (1902 for boys and 1974 for girls). Birth data for Etienne is available in 87 out of the 122 years between 1902 and 2023 (87 years for boys and 15 years for girls). 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 Etienne has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Etienne reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 4.3% percentile (ranked #837) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1902, with 38 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Etienne ranks #895 for boys (1.8% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 30.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Etienne reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #904) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Etienne".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Etienne. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.2% confident that Etienne is pronounced as eh-TEE-ehn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-tee-ehn, at 16.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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