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Dathan

#10,957 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly fountain

Dathan has been given to 1,571 babies in the U.S. since 1958. In 2025 it ranked #10,957 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 53 recorded.

Babies named Dathan, 2025

1 in 553,000

Dathan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dathan: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly fountain

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dathan means

Dathan may mean “fountain”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,571 boys were recorded with the name Dathan between 1958 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 53 in 2005; its best national rank was #1,197 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,373 in 2020 to #10,957 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,758 in 2015 to #10,957 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.

How common is Dathan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,957
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dathan 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dathan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dathans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dathan was born before 1997 — so the typical Dathan is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
26.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,571
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 26.7% of all recorded uses (420).

Is Dathan 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
−2,488
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,584
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,199
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.3%
Peak was 2005 (53)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,197
1975

Spellings of Dathan

Dathan is not the most common spelling — Nathan is, with 45.7% against Dathan's 0.12%.

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 Dathan is used

Across 1910–2025, Dathan was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 310,810 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Mississippi1 in —
  5. 5Oklahoma1 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. Dathan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dathan around the world

Where Dathan 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.

  • South Australia
    1980–1990
    #484
    in 1990

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Dathan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,957
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,584
Best rank ever
#1,197
1975
Peak year
2005
53 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,571
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Dathan

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

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Sibling names for Dathan

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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