Fun Facts About the Name Eternity
- More than 2 thousand babies named Eternity: U.S. records list 2,224 babies given the name Eternity from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Eternity Mean?
Eternity is an English word name taken directly from the common noun eternity, meaning "everlasting time" or "endless duration." The noun entered Middle English by way of Old French eternité, from Latin aeternitas ("eternity, immortality"), which was built on the adjective aeternus ("eternal, perpetual"). Latin aeternus is usually traced to aevum, "age" or "lifetime," so the oldest sense of the root is roughly "lasting through the ages." The name is used for its literal meaning; it is not a translation or variant of an older personal name from another language, though it belongs with other English word names drawn from abstract nouns, such as Serenity and Harmony.
Eternity Name History & Origins
English speakers have long used abstract nouns as personal names. Puritan families of the 16th and 17th centuries were especially associated with names such as Prudence, Patience, and Charity, and later English-speaking parents added names like Hope, Grace, and Serenity. Eternity follows this pattern: a religiously weighted noun is used directly as a name. The word itself appears in English Bibles, as in the King James rendering of Isaiah 57:15, where God is described as the one who "inhabiteth eternity."
The name remains uncommon and is used mainly in the United States, where word names of this type are most often given. It should be distinguished from the cosmic entity named Eternity in Marvel Comics, which is a fictional character name rather than the source of the personal name.
How Popular is the Name Eternity?
Eternity has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2009. Its best rank was #1,971 in 2021.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #2,305 | 79 | 0.0049% |
| 2024 | #2,215 | 85 | 0.0053% |
| 2023 | #2,357 | 77 | 0.0048% |
| 2022 | #2,609 | 67 | 0.0041% |
| 2021 | #1,971 | 99 | 0.0060% |
| 2020 | #2,352 | 75 | 0.0046% |
| 2019 | #2,224 | 83 | 0.0049% |
| 2018 | #2,282 | 80 | 0.0047% |
| 2017 | #3,170 | 51 | 0.0030% |
| 2016 | #2,350 | 80 | 0.0045% |
| 2015 | #2,220 | 85 | 0.0048% |
| 2014 | #2,014 | 98 | 0.0055% |
| 2013 | #2,443 | 74 | 0.0042% |
| 2012 | #2,320 | 81 | 0.0046% |
| 2011 | #2,245 | 84 | 0.0048% |
| 2010 | #2,185 | 89 | 0.0050% |
| 2009 | #2,007 | 103 | 0.0056% |
| 2008 | #2,224 | 89 | 0.0047% |
| 2007 | #2,317 | 83 | 0.0043% |
| 2006 | #2,038 | 97 | 0.0051% |
| 2005 | #3,139 | 50 | 0.0027% |
| 2004 | #2,758 | 59 | 0.0032% |
| 2003 | #2,850 | 54 | 0.0030% |
| 2002 | #2,428 | 66 | 0.0037% |
| 2001 | #3,213 | 43 | 0.0024% |
| 2000 | #3,231 | 42 | 0.0023% |
| 1999 | #3,202 | 40 | 0.0023% |
| 1998 | #3,186 | 39 | 0.0022% |
| 1997 | #3,123 | 38 | 0.0022% |
| 1996 | #3,256 | 36 | 0.0021% |
| 1995 | #3,305 | 34 | 0.0019% |
| 1994 | #4,046 | 26 | 0.0015% |
| 1993 | #6,375 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 1992 | #6,412 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 1991 | #13,845 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1990 | #13,654 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Eternity Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You are fine when in harmony but changeable when in discord, because many of your best qualities are then reversed. You are entertaining but may be impulsive. Freedom is a necessity, and you find it difficult to settle down. Your versatility results in many changes, and often brings travel. Your fine intellect is capable of high honors if applied seriously. You are capable of inspired thinking applied to material things. You can be restless, changeable, and very sexy. You have an eventful, exciting life. You are versatile and have the ability to learn easily.
Position and social status is very important for you and you are always looking for way to improve your position in society. You have power and ability to chose your own destiny and achieve anything you want in life. You can expand in any direction according to your will and the set of values. You have passion for justice and belong to the position of authority. You have an inherent courage and endurance to accomplish "The Impossible Dream". With the power comes responsibility. You hold keys to the material world, but with this gift comes high spiritual responsibility to be fair and true to others. You are philosophical and mature, determined and intense with a desire to endure, often religious.
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