Elnatan

#12,570 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Elnatan has been given to 52 babies in the U.S. since 2010. In 2025 it ranked #12,570 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Elnatan, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Elnatan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,570
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elnatan 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elnatan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elnatans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elnatan was born before 2016 — so the typical Elnatan is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
78.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
52
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Choose a decade

2010s — 78.8% of all recorded uses (41).

Is Elnatan 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,491
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.4%
Peak was 2018 (7)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,980
2018

Spellings of Elnatan

Elnatan is not the most common spelling — Jonatan is, with 46.8% against Elnatan's 0.65%.

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 Elnatan is used

Across 1910–2025, Elnatan was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Elnatan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elnatan around the world

Where Elnatan 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
    2022–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Elnatan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,570
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#9,980
2018
Peak year
2018
7 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
52
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Elnatan

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Sibling names for Elnatan

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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