Natan
Natan was given to 61 boys in 2025, #2,298 among boys’ names; 1,623 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,590 Americans named Natan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Natan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Natan mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Natan is “a male given name from Biblical Hebrew, equivalent to English Nathan”
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. )
/ˈna.tan/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Natan?
#2,298 among boys’ names, 2025
Natan rose from #2,339 in 2015 to #2,298 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 29.2 to 35.7 per million.
65 babies in 2017, the peak
Natan peaked in 2017, when 65 boys were given it, #2,123 among boys’ names. The 61 births of 2025 are 94% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,298 | 35.7 |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,496 | 31.9 |
| 2023 | 55 | #2,468 | 32.2 |
| 2022 | 65 | #2,230 | 37.2 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,402 | 32.6 |
| 2020 | 60 | #2,279 | 34.8 |
| 2019 | 52 | #2,543 | 29.0 |
| 2018 | 60 | #2,275 | 33.0 |
| 2017 | 65 | #2,123 | 35.1 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,198 | 32.7 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 56 | #2,339 | 29.2 |
| 2014 | 47 | #2,605 | 24.5 |
| 2013 | 45 | #2,652 | 23.8 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,256 | 30.6 |
| 2011 | 43 | #2,779 | 22.6 |
| 2010 | 47 | #2,615 | 24.5 |
| 2009 | 50 | #2,547 | 25.2 |
| 2008 | 46 | #2,706 | 22.5 |
| 2007 | 47 | #2,632 | 22.6 |
| 2006 | 43 | #2,726 | 20.9 |
| 2005 | 36 | #2,937 | 18.0 |
| 2004 | 50 | #2,295 | 25.2 |
| 2003 | 28 | #3,334 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 33 | #2,863 | 17.0 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,196 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 32 | #2,839 | 16.3 |
| 1999 | 29 | #2,911 | 15.1 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,901 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,122 | 12.7 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,420 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,393 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,549 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,611 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,858 | 8.0 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,397 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,716 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 18 | #3,284 | 9.0 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,083 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,828 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,588 | 7.1 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,959 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,394 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,554 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,871 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,550 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,708 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 9 | #4,061 | 5.5 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,947 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,400 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,364 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,555 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Natan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Natan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Natan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Natan, and how old are they?
1,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,623 Americans ever recorded as Natan. The median Natan alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,975 people named Natan (15 women and girls, 1,960 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,265 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times 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 | 49 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 197 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 612 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 735 |
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 Natan born?
The states with the most babies named Natan are New York, Texas and Washington, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 10 | #1,184 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,841 | 0.3× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,099 | 0.5× |
Where Natan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Natan is most over-represented in New York: since 1968 it was given 1.9 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 Natan 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,122 babies since 1880, Natan is the most given (76% of them). In 2025 it was given to 61 of their 90 babies (68%), 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 Natan
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 Natan and names like it
- Compare Natan and NationBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNatan peaked in 2017.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Natan since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Natan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Natan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.