Echo
Feminine · “sound”
Echo is given to both — 4,829 girls and 412 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Echo was a nymph condemned to repeat other people's words — and the Greek ekho simply means a sound.
How old is the name Echo?
Echo first appears in US birth records in 1888 — 137 years ago. The typical Echo alive today was born around 1994, making them about 31 years old. About 4,400 people named Echo are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Echo most popular?
Echo peaked in 1983, reaching #845 nationally. Today it ranks #2326, 1,481 places below that high. See the whole 1983 chart.
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Where it comes from
From ekho to Echo
The story of Echo
Ovid has Echo cover for Zeus's affairs by talking, and Hera punish her by leaving her only the last words of others; she then falls in love with Narcissus and can say nothing of her own. She wastes away until only the voice remains. Echo appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
sound, reverberation
From the Greek ekho, 'sound' or 'noise', personified as a nymph. Ovid's Metamorphoses has Hera punish her by taking away everything but the ability to repeat what she hears. The Greek is ordinary and the myth documented.
How the name formed
- ekho
- Echo
Related forms: Ἠχώ · Eco
Pronouncing Echo
EK-oh
Two syllables, stress on the first. It is a homophone of the ordinary English noun.
Nicknames for Echo
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1888
- Most girls named
- 1984182 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #845reached in 1983
- Change vs 2023
- −42.6%78 in 2025, from 136
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Echo in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ἠχώ in Greek — transliteration
- Eco in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Echos among us
people named Echo are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 20,606 born in 2025 was named Echo
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Elvia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Echo's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Elvia climbed just as high around 1948, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Elvia's path sketches the road Echo is walking now.
Echo sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Echo is headed
Echo should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Echo beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Echo in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The myth of losing everything but repetition is a first-rate story.
- The meaning is transparent and needs no explanation.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- It is an ordinary English noun and reads as one.
- The myth is one of punishment and wasting away.
- A smart-speaker brand is a strong modern association.
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Feminine · #2326 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Echos are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,400 people named Echo are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Echo in 2025?
- Echo ranks #2326 among US girl names in 2025, with 78 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Echo?
- About 1 in every 20,606 US girls born in 2025 was named Echo — 78 in all.
- Will my child share the name Echo with classmates?
- Echo will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Echo
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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