Eathan
Eathan was given to 7 boys in 2025, #9,968 among boys’ names; 1,214 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Eathan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eathan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eathan mean?
Wiktionary, Scottish Gaelic section
Eathan is “a male given name, equivalent to English John”
/ˈe.an/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Scottish Gaelic section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eathan?
#9,968 among boys’ names, 2025
Eathan fell from #7,194 in 2015 to #9,968 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.7 to 4.1 per million.
80 babies in 2006, the peak
Eathan peaked in 2006, when 80 boys were given it, #1,743 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,968 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,911 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,017 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,862 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,229 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,952 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,883 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,839 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,594 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 19 | #4,989 | 10.0 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #7,194 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,820 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 40 | #2,859 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 38 | #3,014 | 20.0 |
| 2011 | 44 | #2,713 | 23.2 |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,101 | 33.4 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,189 | 30.8 |
| 2008 | 63 | #2,147 | 30.9 |
| 2007 | 54 | #2,384 | 26.0 |
| 2006 | 80 | #1,743 | 38.9 |
| 2005 | 65 | #1,946 | 32.5 |
| 2004 | 70 | #1,787 | 35.3 |
| 2003 | 71 | #1,721 | 35.9 |
| 2002 | 56 | #1,977 | 28.8 |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,124 | 25.2 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,021 | 25.5 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,411 | 19.3 |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,076 | 23.5 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,102 | 22.3 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,283 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,609 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,872 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 17 | #3,700 | 8.7 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,491 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 21 | #3,023 | 10.4 |
| 1990 | 25 | #2,638 | 12.2 |
| 1989 | 18 | #3,235 | 9.0 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,313 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Eathan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eathan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eathan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eathan, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,214 Americans ever recorded as Eathan. The median Eathan alive today is 21 years old; half are between 16 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,693 people named Eathan (5 women and girls, 1,688 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,153 born in the U.S. The Census count is 47% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 127 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 875 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 187 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 505,218 babies since 1880, Eathan is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 11,701 babies (<1%), again the fifth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Eathan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Eathan and names like it
- Compare Eathan and EthanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEathan peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eathan since 1910.
- Scottish Gaelic namesWiktionary’s origin for Eathan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Eathan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Eathan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.