Echo
About Echo
Echo, the pretty, resonant name of a legendary nymph, was the heroine of Joss Whedon's sci-fi series Dollhouse. Nick Hexum, of the band 311, named his daughter Echo Love.
In the Greek myth, Echo was a nymph whose unrequited love for Narcissus caused her to fade away until all that was left was the sound of her voice. Obviously, a name with a lot of reverberations.
Pronounced EK-oh.
As of October 2026, Echo ranked #2339 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #845 in 1983.
Editor's take: The name Echo is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "echo or sound".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,145 | 89 | 49.8 |
| 2015 | #1,832 | 113 | 63.3 |
| 2016 | #1,962 | 102 | 57.6 |
| 2017 | #2,487 | 72 | 41.7 |
| 2018 | #2,000 | 98 | 57.6 |
| 2019 | #2,017 | 95 | 56.6 |
| 2020 | #1,666 | 123 | 76.1 |
| 2021 | #1,421 | 152 | 92.6 |
| 2022 | #1,650 | 128 | 78 |
| 2023 | #1,558 | 136 | 84.8 |
| 2024 | #1,693 | 120 | 74.1 |
| 2025 | #2,339 | 78 | 48.5 |
World rankings
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Echo on lists
Famous Echos
- Echo Gillette
American YouTuber
- (Marvel) Echo Star Helstrom
Bob Dylan's high school sweetheart who inspired the song "Girl from the North Country"
- Echo Leta Johnson
American model
- Echo
English name of Taiwanese author Sanmao
- Echo Love Hexum (b. 2009)
daughter of American singer Nick Hexum
Echo in pop culture
- Echo
Greek nymph cursed by Hera to only be able to repeat what she hears
- Echo
character on TV's "Dollhouse"
- Echo DiSavoy
character on American soap opera One Life to Live
- Echo Zizzleswift
character on TV's "Mr Young"
- Echo
various DC Comics characters
- Echo aka Maya Lopez
character in Marvel's Daredevil comics
- Echo
character from movie "Every Which Way But Loose"
- Echo Emerson
character from the novel "Pushing the Limits"
- Echo
Skylander from video game "Skylanders Trap Team"
- Echo Park
neighborhood of Los Angeles
- Echosmith
American band
- Echo
character on the CW's show "The 100"
- Echo
robot hero in the video game Overwatch