Jathen
Jathen was last recorded in 2015, when 6 babies were given it; 157 Americans have been recorded with it between 1998 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jathen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jathen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,280, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 2007, the peak
Jathen peaked in 2007, when 19 boys were given it, #4,884 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #11,280 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,349 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,344 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,199 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,404 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,953 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,358 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,884 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,643 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,385 | 6.0 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 7 | #9,360 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,939 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,978 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,690 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,527 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,330 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jathen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jathen has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jathen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jathen, and how old are they?
An estimated 155 Americans named Jathen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 15 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 161 people named Jathen (3 women and girls, 158 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 155 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,742 babies since 1880, Jathen is the third most given (5.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 27 babies recorded by SSA was a Jathen (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jathen
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 Jathen and names like it
- Compare Jathen and JathanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJathen peaked in 2007.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Jathen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jathen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.