Ethan
1.09k
Babies in 2024
-64%
10-year change
2011
Peak · 4.58k
-9%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Ethan
Ethan has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 1,086 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 64% on a decade earlier.
Ethan reached its peak in 2011, when 4,581 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #11 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 24% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 77,394 boys have been officially registered with the name Ethan in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 21,326 boys were registered with the name, starting from 3,061 in 2014 and ending at 1,086 in 2024.