Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Ethylene

#29,829 most common girls' name of all time · #48,204 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1918–1941

Rank among girls
#29,829
Rank overall
#48,204 of 105,966
First appeared
1918
Years on the list
11 of 146
All-time
62
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1927 #3,832
Best rank
#3,832 1927
Girls Boys peak 8/yr
19201940

Ethylene first appears in 1918. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1941 6 — 6 #4,259
1939 5 — 5 #4,680
1938 6 — 6 #4,165
1934 5 — 5 #4,727
1931 5 — 5 #4,794
1930 5 — 5 #5,018
1927 8 — 8 #3,832
1925 6 — 6 #4,828
1923 6 — 6 #4,833
1921 5 — 5 #5,608
1918 5 — 5 #5,418