Nathen
#4,011 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nathen has been given to 6,146 babies in the U.S. since 1902. In 2025 it ranked #4,011 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 255 recorded.
Babies named Nathen, 2025
1 in 123,000
Nathen over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nathen?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 123,000
- 27 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 63,300
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,011
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 85,108 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nathen sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nathen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nathens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nathen was born before 2001 — so the typical Nathen is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 35.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 50.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 5,872
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 35.6% of all recorded uses (2,187).
Is Nathen 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
- +1,363
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −309
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,172
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.33×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 10.6%
- Peak was 2006 (255)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.9% average annual change
Spellings of Nathen
Nathen is not the most common spelling — Nathan is, with 83.7% against Nathen's 0.88%.
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 Nathen is used
Across 1910–2025, Nathen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 47,972 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 16,667
- 2Washington1 in 16,667
- 3Arizona1 in 33,333
- 4Michigan1 in 33,333
- 5Nevada1 in 33,333
- 6Ohio1 in 33,333
- 7Texas1 in 33,333
- 8Florida1 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. Nathen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nathen around the world
Where Nathen 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 & Wales1996–2024#5,120in 2024
- Scotland1989–2004#490in 2004
- Ireland1998–2010#611in 2010
- France2004–2004#3,569in 2004
- Canada1991–2022#2,602in 2022
- South Australia1965–2004#404in 2004
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Nathen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nathen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Nathen
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Nathen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Nathen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.