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Natan

#2,298 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Nathan

Natan has been given to 1,623 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #2,298 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 65 recorded.

Babies named Natan, 2025

1 in 54,300

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Natan: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Nathan

Biblical Hebrew

What Natan means

Natan is a form of Nathan.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Natan → Nathan. The family’s meaning is “gave”, recorded in English with the source elements natán.

Origin, language, and formation

Natan is used in German, Icelandic, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. Its origins include Biblical Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nathan and Natã.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Natan is pronounced /ˈna.tan/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,623 boys were recorded with the name Natan between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 65 in 2017; its best national rank was #2,123 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,279 in 2020 to #2,298 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,339 in 2015 to #2,298 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 Natan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 54,300
61 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 28,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,298
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,672 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Natan 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 37,672 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Natan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Natans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Natan was born before 2011 — so the typical Natan is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,623
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Choose a decade

2010s — 33.0% of all recorded uses (535).

Is Natan 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
+198
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−19
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+41
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
93.8%
Peak was 2017 (65)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,123
2017

Spellings of Natan

Natan is not the most common spelling — Nathan is, with 47.0% against Natan's 0.13%.

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 Natan is used

Across 2016–2025, Natan was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 35,542 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 14,286
  2. 2Washington1 in 20,000
  3. 3Maryland1 in 25,000
  4. 4California1 in 33,333
  5. 5Oregon1 in 33,333
  6. 6Colorado1 in 50,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 50,000
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 50,000

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.

Natan around the world

Where Natan 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
    1998–2025
    #771
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2024
    #727
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2008–2022
    #352
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2006–2023
    #516
    in 2023
  • France
    1934–2025
    #2,204
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #308
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,071
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1992–1994
    #531
    in 1994

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Natan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,298
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 19
Best rank ever
#2,123
2017
Peak year
2017
65 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,623
Count in 2025
61

Names similar to Natan

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

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Sibling names for Natan

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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