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Etan

#11,078 in 2025Boys' name

Strong, firm, enduring, permanent, through אֵיתָן

Etan has been given to 313 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #11,078 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1983, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Etan, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Etan: meaning, origin, and history

Strong, firm, enduring, permanent, through אֵיתָן

Hebrew

What Etan means

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

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Rendering of the modern (Israeli) Hebrew אֵיתָן (Etán), equivalent to the English Ethan.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Etan (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Etan is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Etan comes through Hebrew אֵיתָן.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include אֵיתָן.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Etan is pronounced /ˈeɪtɑːn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 313 boys were recorded with the name Etan between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1983; its best national rank was #2,516 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,627 in 2020 to #11,078 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,101 in 2015 to #11,078 in 2025.

How common is Etan?

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
#11,078
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Etan 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 Etan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Etans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Etan was born before 1999 — so the typical Etan is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
30.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
313
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 30.0% of all recorded uses (94).

Is Etan 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
+1,796
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,549
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+23
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.6%
Peak was 1983 (19)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,516
1983

Spellings of Etan

Etan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 23.9% against Etan's <0.01%.

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 Etan is used

Across 1910–2025, Etan was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 532,954 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. Etan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Etan around the world

Where Etan 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
    2009–2009
    #3,744
    in 2009
  • France
    1999–2025
    #4,461
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Etan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,078
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,549
Best rank ever
#2,516
1983
Peak year
1983
19 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
313
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Etan

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

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Sibling names for Etan

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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