Ethel

English

"noble maiden"

Ethel Rank in US Top 1000

# 896 in the US

Ethel Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 546 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Ethel

• 546 Nameberry 2025
• 988 England 2024

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Famous People Named Ethel

• Ethel Barrymore (born Ethel Mae Blythe) American actress
• Ethel Clayton American silent film actress
• Ethel May Dell English romance novelist
• Ethel Carow Roosevelt Derby daughter of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt
• Ethel Merman (born Ethel Agnes Zimmerman) American singer and actress
• Ethel Turner Australian novelist
• Ethel Mary Smyth English composer and feminist
• Ethel Skakel Kennedy widow of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy
• Ethel Waters American jazz singer and actress
• Ethel Elizabeth Gee English spy
• Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg American spy
• Ethel Lilian Voynich Irish novelist
• Ethel Shannon American silent film actress
• Ethel Kremer Schwabacher American painter
• Ethel L. Payne American journalist
• Ethel Hays American cartoonist
• Ethel Hannah Catherwood Canadian Olympic athlete
• Ethel Azama American jazz singer
• Ethel Ayler American actress
• Ethel Percy Andrus American educator and founder of AARP
• Ethel Mary Cooper (b. 2011) daughter of singer Lily Allen
• Ethel Cain Stage name of American singer Hayden Ähnedonia

The name Ethel in Pop Culture

• Ethel Anderson character on TV's "Brickleberry"
• Ethel Parks character on TV's "Downton Abbey"
• Ethel Mertz character on TV's "I Love Lucy"
• Ethel May Skinner character on British soap "EastEnders"
• Ethel Hallow character in "The Worst Witch" series
• Big Ethel character in Archie Comics
• Ethel Darling character in "American Horror Story: Freak Show"
• Ethel Thayer character in Ernest Thompson's "On Golden Pond"
• Ethel Eldon character in Mildred Keith series
• Short for Ethelinda Ethelberta, Ethelgoda, Etheldred, Ethelwynn, etc.
• Ethel Hardy character in G. A. Henty's "Out on the Pampas"
• Ethel Toffelmeyer character in "The Music Man"
• Ethel Grackle character in "Strange Hill High"