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Baby name
Ethel
Girl
Origin of the name
Ethel comes from the Old English æthel, “noble,” the first element of many Anglo-Saxon names.
Classic name
278,922births since 1880
1910sgeneration
No. 28rank at its peak, in 1918
Where babies named Ethel are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Ethel is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Ethel is most common in Mississippi (2.9 times), South Carolina (2.6) and Alabama (2.3), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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