Eydan
Masculine · “era”
Eydan is a Hebrew name meaning era or epoch — idan, the word for an age of the world, used in modern Israeli naming rather than biblical.
How old is the name Eydan?
Eydan first appears in US birth records in 2006 — 19 years ago. The typical Eydan is a kid of about 3 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Eydan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Eydan most popular?
Eydan peaked in 2023, reaching #1105 nationally. Today it ranks #1668, 563 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From idan to Eydan
The story of Eydan
Idan and Eydan belong to the wave of modern Hebrew names built on ordinary vocabulary rather than biblical people — Idan, Ziv, Aviv, Nitzan. Israeli naming produced them through the twentieth century. Separately, Aidan rose enormously in America from the 1990s. Eydan appears in the American registers in the 2010s and is in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
era, epoch, age
Usually read from the Hebrew idan, 'era' or 'epoch', a word of Aramaic origin used in Daniel. A second route treats Eydan as a respelling of the Irish Aidan, from Aodh, 'fire'. The two are unrelated and the American record does not distinguish them.
How the name formed
- idan
- Eydan
Related forms: עידן · Idan · Aidan
Pronouncing Eydan
AY-dahn
Two syllables, stress on the first. Hebrew Idan is ee-DAHN with the stress at the end.
Nicknames for Eydan
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
- 2006
- Most boys named
- 2023192 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1105reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- −7.5%99 in 2025, from 107
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.
Eydan in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- עידן in Hebrew — transliteration
- Idan in Hebrew — spelling variant
- Aidan in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, New York.
Eydans among us
people named Eydan are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 17,253 born in 2025 was named Eydan
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Eydan
- #1668
- Eydan on the 2025 chart
- #654
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Eydan went to 99 boys in 2025, but Eidan is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 286, which makes it the 654th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,014 places above the chart.
- Eidan187
- Eydan99
About 1 boy in 5,972 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 17,253 for Eydan itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Amar test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Eydan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Amar climbed just as high around 2003, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Amar's path sketches the road Eydan is walking now.
Eydan 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 Eydan is headed
Eydan looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 54% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. 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.
Eydan beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Eydan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The era meaning is concrete and belongs to a documented modern Hebrew tradition.
- Dan is available as a short form with an enormous record.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- The origin is genuinely split between a Hebrew word and an Irish name.
- Aidan and Aiden are both far commoner and will be substituted.
- The stress placement differs between Hebrew and American readings.
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Frequently asked
- How many Eydans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Eydan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Eydan?
- Eydan is one of 2 recorded spellings. Eidan is the more common one — 187 births in 2025 against 99 for Eydan.
- How popular is the name Eydan in 2025?
- Eydan ranks #1668 among US boy names in 2025, with 99 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Eydan?
- About 1 in every 17,253 US boys born in 2025 was named Eydan — 99 in all.
- Will my child share the name Eydan with classmates?
- Eydan will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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