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Aithan

#3,035 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Ethan

Aithan has been given to 304 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #3,035 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Aithan, 2025

1 in 82,900

Aithan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aithan: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ethan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aithan means

Aithan is a form of Ethan.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Aithan → Ethan. The family’s meaning is “firmness, strong, or long-lived”, recorded in English with the source elements ʾêṯān.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ethan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 304 boys were recorded with the name Aithan between 2006 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 40 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,035 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,988 in 2020 to #3,035 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,677 in 2015 to #3,035 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aithan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 82,900
40 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 42,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,035
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
57,449 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aithan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 57,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aithan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aithans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aithan was born before 2020 — so the typical Aithan is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
51.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
304
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 51.6% of all recorded uses (157).

Is Aithan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,286
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,953
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,642
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (40)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,035
2025

Spellings of Aithan

Aithan is not the most common spelling — Nathan is, with 47.1% against Aithan's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aithan is used

Across 1910–2025, Aithan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 786,071 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Aithan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aithan around the world

Where Aithan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2020–2023
    #3,524
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Aithan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,035
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,953
Best rank ever
#3,035
2025
Peak year
2025
40 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
304
Count in 2025
40

Names similar to Aithan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

JashanAodhanRaihanShahanBurhanNishanEeshanSrihanArshanRishanEoghanZephanLoghanKayhanAitorRuhanMatthanIthanCalahanNaithanMohanRihanShrihanLaythan

Sibling names for Aithan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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