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Metehan

#10,329 in 2025Boys' name

Khan, ruler, leader

Metehan has been given to 33 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #10,329 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Metehan, 2025

1 in 474,000

Metehan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Metehan: meaning, origin, and history

Khan, ruler, leader

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Metehan means

Metehan means “khan, ruler, leader”.

Origin, language, and formation

Metehan is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 33 boys were recorded with the name Metehan between 2007 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2024; its best national rank was #8,748 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,520 in 2020 to #10,329 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 Metehan?

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
#10,329
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

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

When Metehans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Metehan was born before 2023 — so the typical Metehan is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
84.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
33
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Choose a decade

2020s — 84.8% of all recorded uses (28).

Is Metehan 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
−1,581
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,191
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
77.8%
Peak was 2024 (9)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,748
2024

Spellings of Metehan

Metehan is not the most common spelling — Ethan is, with 100.0% against Metehan's <0.01%.

  • Ethan100.0%487,389
  • Metehan<0.01%33

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.

Metehan around the world

Where Metehan 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
    1996–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    1994–2025
    #1,397
    in 2025

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

Metehan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,329
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,191
Best rank ever
#8,748
2024
Peak year
2024
9 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
33
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Metehan

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

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Sibling names for Metehan

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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