Nathen
Nathen was given to 27 boys in 2025, #4,011 among boys’ names; 6,146 Americans have been recorded with it since 1902 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,690 Americans named Nathen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 18 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nathen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nathen?
#4,011 among boys’ names, 2025
Nathen fell from #1,839 in 2015 to #4,011 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 42.3 to 15.8 per million.
255 babies in 2006, the peak
Nathen peaked in 2006, when 255 boys were given it, #803 among boys’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,011 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,374 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 21 | #4,838 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 30 | #3,741 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,193 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 29 | #3,702 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 43 | #2,886 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 44 | #2,783 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 50 | #2,552 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,297 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 81 | #1,839 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 91 | #1,689 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 122 | #1,383 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 163 | #1,127 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 163 | #1,124 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 161 | #1,153 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 210 | #961 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 245 | #867 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 226 | #890 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 255 | #803 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 253 | #778 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 236 | #770 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 190 | #889 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 194 | #856 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 196 | #830 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 182 | #869 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 173 | #876 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 147 | #950 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 124 | #1,033 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 110 | #1,096 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 114 | #1,046 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 106 | #1,091 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 90 | #1,179 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 86 | #1,214 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 114 | #1,007 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 106 | #1,028 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 98 | #1,049 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 100 | #968 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 87 | #1,020 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 82 | #1,026 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 81 | #1,018 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 68 | #1,093 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 72 | #1,046 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 89 | #955 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 82 | #1,007 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 82 | #1,001 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 56 | #1,237 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 47 | #1,342 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 54 | #1,202 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,205 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 39 | #1,419 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 28 | #1,737 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 31 | #1,573 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 23 | #1,909 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 20 | #2,097 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,704 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,643 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 16 | #2,082 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,720 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,350 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,924 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,788 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,802 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,989 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,651 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,808 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,378 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,968 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,771 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,433 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,767 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,556 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 8 | #3,028 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,262 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,287 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,589 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #4,028 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,225 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,522 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,891 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,447 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,046 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,593 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,827 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,070 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,350 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,219 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,320 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,783 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,558 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,164 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,998 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,685 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,515 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,698 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,195 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,723 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,212 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,585 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,714 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,593 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,027 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,459 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,676 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,761 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,772 | 0.03 |
| 1902 | 8 | #902 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nathen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nathen has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 107 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nathen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nathen, and how old are they?
5,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 6,146 Americans ever recorded as Nathen. The median Nathen alive today is 24 years old; half are between 18 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 4,861 people named Nathen (13 women and girls, 4,848 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,631 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 19 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 106 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 448 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,410 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,070 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 634 |
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 Nathen born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #2,842 | 0.8× |
Where Nathen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nathen is most over-represented in Washington: since 1910 it was given 1.4 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 Nathen 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 598,755 babies since 1880, Nathen is the second most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 5,036 babies (<1%), 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 Nathen
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 Nathen and names like it
- Compare Nathen and NathanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNathen peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nathen since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Nathen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nathen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.