Eithan
Eithan was given to 3,636 boys in 2025, #97 among boys’ names; 8,754 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,690 Americans named Eithan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 2 years old and half are between 1 and 4.
Eithan was given to 2,037 more boys in 2025 than in 2024, the biggest gain in babies among boys’ names.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eithan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Eithan?
#97 among boys’ names, 2025
Eithan rose from #1,603 in 2015 to #97 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.05 to 2.1 per 1,000.
3,636 babies in 2025, the peak
Eithan peaked in 2025, when 3,636 boys were given it, #97 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 1,599 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,636 | #97 | 2.1 |
| 2024 | 1,599 | #226 | 0.93 |
| 2023 | 876 | #371 | 0.51 |
| 2022 | 605 | #501 | 0.35 |
| 2021 | 280 | #849 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 259 | #871 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 263 | #851 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 199 | #1,028 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 118 | #1,452 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 97 | #1,645 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 100 | #1,603 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 80 | #1,849 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,212 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 56 | #2,304 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,178 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,215 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 46 | #2,670 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 48 | #2,598 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 40 | #2,938 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 32 | #3,329 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 41 | #2,670 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 34 | #2,962 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 26 | #3,462 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 32 | #2,895 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,533 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 22 | #3,664 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,356 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,234 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,795 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,648 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,560 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,582 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,504 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,409 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Eithan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eithan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eithan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eithan, and how old are they?
8,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 8,754 Americans ever recorded as Eithan. The median Eithan alive today is 2 years old; half are between 1 and 4.
The 2020 Census counted 1,145 people named Eithan (10 women and girls, 1,135 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,551 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 34 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 540 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,120 |
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 Eithan born?
The states with the most babies named Eithan are Texas, California and New York, with 34% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 583 | #60 | 1.5× |
| California | 380 | #107 | 1.0× |
| New York | 289 | #58 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 267 | #73 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 162 | #54 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 153 | #75 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 144 | #50 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 130 | #86 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 119 | #95 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 96 | #91 | 0.8× |
Where Eithan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Eithan is most over-represented in Texas: since 1989 it was given 1.5 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 Eithan 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 505,218 babies since 1880, Eithan is the second most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 3,636 of their 11,701 babies (31%), again the second 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 Eithan
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 Eithan and names like it
- Compare Eithan and EthanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEithan peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eithan since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Eithan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Eithan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.