Message: "Ethel" - Behind the Name

Ethel

by Pie

8/8/2014, 2:15 PM

When looking up Ethelwyn the other day I noticed how amazingly popular Ethel was in the 1880s & 90s. It was top 100 right up to the late 1930s here, and seems to have had a pretty good run in the US, too. There were a whole bunch of variants: various spellings of Ethelwyn, Etheline, Ethelinda, Etheldreda / Ethelreda / Etheldra - even a few Ethelburgas.

Datedness aside, does anyone like it or find it an attractive sound?
And have you ever met one, or had a relative with the name?

#Ethel

This message was edited 8/8/2014, 2:17 PM

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Ethel · Pie · 8/8/2014, 2:15 PM

•Re: Ethel · Just Jonquil · 8/9/2014, 7:26 PM

•Re: Ethel · queenv · 8/10/2014, 6:32 AM

•Re: Ethel · gigibee · 8/9/2014, 6:20 PM

•Re: Ethel · Tassiegirl · 8/9/2014, 12:33 PM

•Re: Ethel · Anneza · 8/9/2014, 6:44 AM

•I prefer Etheline · puck · 8/9/2014, 6:42 AM

•Re: Ethel · Finch · 8/9/2014, 5:14 AM

•Re: Ethel · Billina · 8/8/2014, 9:10 PM

•Re: Ethel · Wordsmith · 8/8/2014, 7:51 PM

•Re: Ethel · queenv · 8/8/2014, 7:40 PM

•Speaking of whom...(m) · queenv · 8/8/2014, 8:06 PM

•does she have a nickname? · RoxStar · 8/9/2014, 6:52 AM

•Not that I've ever heard. nt · queenv · 8/9/2014, 8:22 AM

•Re: Ethel · lac · 8/8/2014, 6:45 PM

•Re: Ethel · Aine · 8/8/2014, 6:15 PM

•Re: Ethel · New_Chloe · 8/8/2014, 4:34 PM

•Re: Ethel · **Hiddlestoner_26** · 8/8/2014, 3:34 PM

•Re: Ethel · insane romantic · 8/8/2014, 3:08 PM

•Re: Ethel · RoxStar · 8/8/2014, 2:51 PM

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