Naithan
Naithan was given to 10 boys in 2025, #8,048 among boys’ names; 290 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Naithan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Naithan?
#8,048 among boys’ names, 2025
Naithan fell from #5,906 in 2015 to #8,048 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.8 to 5.9 per million.
20 babies in 2009, the peak
Naithan peaked in 2009, when 20 boys were given it, #4,870 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #8,048 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 5 | #13,620 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,774 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,414 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,894 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,472 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,719 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,441 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 19 | #5,075 | 10.0 |
| 2015 | 15 | #5,906 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 11 | #7,387 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,559 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,900 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,354 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,960 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,870 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 10 | #8,101 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,437 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,518 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,764 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,934 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,136 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,899 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,067 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,825 | 3.6 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,542 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #9,065 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Naithan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Naithan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Naithan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Naithan, and how old are they?
An estimated 286 Americans named Naithan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 271 people named Naithan (0 women and girls, 271 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 248 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 598,755 babies since 1880, Naithan is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 5,036 babies (<1%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Naithan
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 Naithan and names like it
- Compare Naithan and NathanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNaithan peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Naithan since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Naithan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Naithan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.