Echo

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Echo is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 120 births. Its best rank was 845th, in 1983.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1200.01% of girls
Peak year: 1984182 births
Best rank: #845in 1983
Since 1888: 5,115people given the name

Babies named Echo, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

4,750 girls have been named Echo in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1984, with 182 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1994, and the 1980s alone account for 21%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 365 boys have also been given it, 7.1% of the total.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Echo
1880s	5
1890s	30
1900s	24
1910s	128
1920s	125
1930s	35
1940s	78
1950s	129
1960s	149
1970s	397
1980s	993
1990s	600
2000s	557
2010s	841
2020s	659

In 1984, its biggest year

Echo was the 846th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1984 were Jennifer, Jessica, Ashley, Amanda and Sarah. See all of 1984.

Names that rose and fell with Echo

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.