Eitan
Eitan was given to 256 boys in 2025, #921 among boys’ names; 2,844 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,800 Americans named Eitan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 4 and 20.
Eitan climbed 195 places in 2025, the #25 climb among the boys’ top 1,000.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eitan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eitan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Eitan is “a male given name from Hebrew.”
From Hebrew איתן.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eitan?
#921 among boys’ names, 2025
Eitan rose from #1,681 in 2015 to #921 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.05 to 0.15 per 1,000.
256 babies in 2025, the peak
Eitan peaked in 2025, when 256 boys were given it, #921 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 192 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 256 | #921 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 192 | #1,116 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 165 | #1,207 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 143 | #1,316 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 109 | #1,585 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 76 | #1,926 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 110 | #1,535 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 88 | #1,750 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 96 | #1,653 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 104 | #1,579 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 93 | #1,681 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 95 | #1,633 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 75 | #1,882 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 98 | #1,598 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 76 | #1,852 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,020 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 72 | #1,960 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 72 | #1,969 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 73 | #1,929 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 80 | #1,744 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,210 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,137 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,130 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 38 | #2,564 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 40 | #2,439 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 40 | #2,391 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 35 | #2,517 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,802 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 33 | #2,467 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,316 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 26 | #2,784 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 29 | #2,568 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,873 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,029 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 30 | #2,352 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 24 | #2,715 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 19 | #3,119 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 18 | #2,996 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,098 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,502 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,255 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,326 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 16 | #2,825 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,761 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,259 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,621 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,416 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,090 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,715 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Eitan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eitan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eitan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eitan, and how old are they?
2,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,844 Americans ever recorded as Eitan. The median Eitan alive today is 11 years old; half are between 4 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 2,009 people named Eitan (0 women and girls, 2,009 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,896 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 28 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 283 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 902 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,590 |
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).
Where are babies named Eitan born?
The states with the most babies named Eitan are Florida, New York and California, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 31 | #559 | 1.2× |
| New York | 30 | #533 | 3.9× |
| California | 26 | #887 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 22 | #1,045 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 20 | #398 | 2.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #805 | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 10 | #867 | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 8 | #960 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #958 | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 7 | #798 | 0.1× |
Where Eitan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Eitan is most over-represented in New York: since 1975 it was given 3.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Eitan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,973 babies since 1880, Eitan is the most given (72% of them). In 2025 it was given to 256 of their 302 babies (85%), again the 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 Eitan
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 Eitan and names like it
- Compare Eitan and EytanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEitan peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eitan since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Eitan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Eitan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Eitan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.