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Eitan

#921 in 2025Boys' name

Strong, firm, enduring, permanent, through איתן

Eitan has been given to 2,844 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #921 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 256 recorded.

Babies named Eitan, 2025

1 in 12,900

Eitan over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eitan: meaning, origin, and history

Strong, firm, enduring, permanent, through איתן

Hebrew

What Eitan means

Eitan belongs to the name family reached through Eitan → איתן. Its meaning is “strong, firm, enduring, permanent”.

Origin, language, and formation

Eitan is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Eitan comes through Hebrew איתן.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include איתן.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,844 boys were recorded with the name Eitan between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 256 in 2025; its best national rank was #921 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,926 in 2020 to #921 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,681 in 2015 to #921 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 Eitan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,900
256 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 6,670
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#921
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,977 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eitan 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,977 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eitan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eitans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eitan was born before 2015 — so the typical Eitan is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
33.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,844
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 33.1% of all recorded uses (941).

Is Eitan 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
+195
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,005
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+760
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.75×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (256)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#921
2025

Spellings of Eitan

Eitan is not the most common spelling — Ethan is, with 32.7% against Eitan's 0.19%.

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 Eitan is used

Across 2016–2025, Eitan was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 3,448 boys, against 1 in 11,765 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

129 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 3,448
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 5,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 7,692
  4. 4Maryland1 in 10,000
  5. 5California1 in 11,111
  6. 6Texas1 in 14,286
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 16,667
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 16,667

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.

Eitan around the world

Where Eitan 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
    1999–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1991–2025
    #2,921
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1945–1945
    #261
    in 1945

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Eitan

People whose public names include Eitan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Eitan in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Eitan. Linked forms have their own page here.

Eytan

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Eitan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#921
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,005
Best rank ever
#921
2025
Peak year
2025
256 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,844
Count in 2025
256

Names similar to Eitan

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

NatanEithanTitanSultanTytanMatanYonatanJonatanZoltanEytanStanTrystanDustanChetanFintanIktanChristanDastanEitoEtanKristanAltanJhonatanZlatan

Names with a curve like Eitan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Eitan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AymanIsaOzielRenzoMattiasJosiasAnasYasinAkivaLaithDovidJiovanni

Sibling names for Eitan

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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