Ethel
Ethel is a female English given name .
Origin and meaning
The name Ethel is a short form of English first names beginning with Ethel such as Etheldreda . The name element ethel corresponds to the German adal and means “noble”.
variants
Name bearers
- Ethel Barrymore (1879–1959), American actress
- Ethel Catherwood (1908–1987), Canadian athlete
- Ethel Clayton (1882–1966), American film actress
- Ethel Kennedy (* 1928), widow of Robert F. Kennedy
- Ethel Lackie (1907–1979), American swimmer
- Ethel Thomson Larcombe (1879-1965), English tennis player
- Ethel Leginska (1886–1970), English pianist, conductor and composer
- Ethel MacDonald (1909–1960), Scottish anarchist and activist
- Ethel Merman (1908–1984), American singer and actress
- Ethel Remey (1895–1979), American stage and television actress
- Ethel Reschke (1911–1992), German actress
- Ethel Rosenberg (1915–1953), American and alleged Soviet spy
- Ethel Smith (1907–1979), Canadian athlete
- Ethel Smith (1902-1996), American organist
- Ethel Smyth (1858–1944), English composer and suffragette
- Ethel Snowden (1881–1951), English politician
- Ethel Stark (1910–2012), Canadian conductor and violinist
- Ethel Lilian Voynich (1864–1960), English writer and composer
- Ethel Waters (1896–1977), American singer and actress
- Ethel Lina White (1876–1944), English writer