Eithan
Masculine · Hebrew roots · “Firm”
Eithan carries a word that has been in continuous use for roughly three thousand years: the Hebrew eitan, applied in the Bible to a wise man of Solomon's court and to Ethan the Ezrahite, named in the heading of Psalm 89. The spelling sits halfway between the English Ethan of the King James Bible and the Eitan still given to boys in Israel today, and in the mouth it lands the same easy way — two syllables, EE-thən.
How old is the name Eithan?
Eithan first appears in US birth records in 1989 — 36 years ago. Eithan is overwhelmingly a brand-new baby name right now — most Eithans are still in diapers. About 8,700 people named Eithan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Eithan most popular?
Eithan peaked in 2025, reaching #97 nationally. Today it ranks #97, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
Where it comes from
From Eitan (Hebrew) to Eithan
The story of Eithan
The name is Hebrew, and it reached English readers through scripture rather than through migration: the Greek translators of the Hebrew Bible rendered it Aithan, Latin kept it close, and English Bibles settled on Ethan. Puritan families took biblical names of this kind into everyday use, and Ethan traveled with them to North America. Eithan is a modern respelling that restores the vowel of the Hebrew — the i that Israeli Eitan keeps and English Ethan dropped. It has gained real ground in the United States in recent decades, with particular traction in Texas, California and New York.
Meaning
Firm, enduring, strong — of something that lasts
From the Hebrew adjective eitan (אֵיתָן), used of a stream that never runs dry and, by extension, of anything permanent or steadfast.
How the name formed
- EitanHebrew
- AithanGreek Septuagint
- EthanEnglish Bible
- Eithan
Related forms: Eitan / איתן · Ethan · Ethan · Ethan · Ethan
Pronouncing Eithan
EE-thən
The extra i does not change the English sound — it is said exactly like Ethan, stress on the first syllable, with the soft th of think. In Hebrew the same name is ay-TAHN, with the stress at the end, so bilingual families sometimes use both.
Nicknames for Eithan
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1989
- Most boys named
- 20253,636 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #97reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +127.4%3,636 in 2025, from 1,599
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Eithan in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Eitan / איתן in Hebrew — transliteration
- Ethan in English — spelling variant
- Ethan in Spanish — same name
- Ethan in French — same name
- Ethan in Portuguese — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, New York.
Eithans among us
people named Eithan are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 470 born in 2025 was named Eithan
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Kelly test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Eithan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kelly climbed just as high around 1968, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kelly's path sketches the road Eithan is walking now.
Eithan is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Eithan is headed
Eithan is on a steep climb — if the curve holds, 2030 could see around 123% more babies given the name than today. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Eithan beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Eithan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Sounds completely familiar to English speakers while looking distinct on paper — no one will need the pronunciation explained.
- A documented history of about three thousand years, from the Hebrew Bible through Puritan English into modern use.
- Works with little adjustment in English, Spanish, French and Hebrew, which matters in bilingual families.
- Two syllables, no silent letters, no hard consonant clusters — easy for a small child to say and write.
- Ethan is the default spelling in American English, so expect Eithan to be spelled back incorrectly on forms, class lists and coffee cups for life.
- The name resists shortening. There is no established nickname the way there is for a William or a Nicholas, so it will mostly be used in full.
- Some readers will try ay- or eye- for that ei before learning otherwise, particularly if they know the Hebrew form.
- For now the spelling is carried almost entirely by young children, so it reads as a new name — though the Ethan behind it is anything but.
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Frequently asked
- How many Eithans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 8,700 people named Eithan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Eithan in 2025?
- Eithan ranks #97 among US boy names in 2025, with 3,636 babies given the name.
- How common is the name Eithan?
- About 1 in every 470 US boys born in 2025 was named Eithan — 3,636 in all.
- Will my child share the name Eithan with classmates?
- Eithan will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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