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Eathan

#9,968 in 2025Boys' name

English equivalent of John

Eathan has been given to 1,214 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #9,968 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 80 recorded.

Babies named Eathan, 2025

1 in 474,000

Eathan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eathan: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of John

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eathan means

Eathan is a English equivalent of John.

Origin, language, and formation

Eathan is used in Scottish Gaelic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include John.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Scottish Gaelic, Eathan is pronounced /ˈe.an/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,214 boys were recorded with the name Eathan between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 80 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,721 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,952 in 2020 to #9,968 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,194 in 2015 to #9,968 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 Eathan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,968
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eathan 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eathan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eathans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eathan was born before 2005 — so the typical Eathan is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
51.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,214
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Choose a decade

2000s — 51.0% of all recorded uses (619).

Is Eathan 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
−2,057
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,016
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,774
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.8%
Peak was 2006 (80)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,721
2003

Spellings of Eathan

Eathan is not the most common spelling — Nathan is, with 52.2% against Eathan's 0.11%.

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 Eathan is used

Across 1910–2025, Eathan was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 517,611 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in —
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Indiana1 in —
  7. 7Kentucky1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 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. Eathan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eathan around the world

Where Eathan 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
    1996–2017
    #3,996
    in 2017
  • Northern Ireland
    2004–2004
    #305
    in 2004
  • Canada
    2002–2010
    #2,386
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1994–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Eathan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,968
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,016
Best rank ever
#1,721
2003
Peak year
2006
80 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,214
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Eathan

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

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Sibling names for Eathan

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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