Eitan

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Eitan is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name8.7K records spelled Eitan85 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Australia, Israel, Canada

  Languages: English, Hebrew, Spanish

  Also written Ethan, איתן, Eithan, Eytan, איטן

• English given name7.8K records spelled Eitan5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Israel, Australia

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Eitán

• French given name1.1K records spelled Eitan3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Israel

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Eïtan

• Polish given name942 records spelled Eitan2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United States, Israel

  Also written Etan

• Norwegian given name337 records spelled Eitan5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Israel, Denmark, Norway

  Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål

  Also written Eitán

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Eitan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Jewish: modern Hebrew form of ETHAN .

  as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 49 years between 1975–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Eitan Livnib. 1919ILIsraeli politician (1919–1991)
• Eitan Berglasb. 1934ILIsraeli economist (1934-1992)
• Eitan Ben Eliyahub. 1944ILIsraeli general
• Eitan Evanb. 1948ILIsraeli film producer
• Eytan Stibbeb. 1958ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli businessman
• Eitan Cabelb. 1959ILIsraeli politician
• Eytan Naehb. 1963ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli diplomat
• Eitan Annerb. 1969ILIsraeli film director and screenwriter
• Eitan Kramerb. 1978USvert skater
• Eitan Reuvenfilm director

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 346 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Eitan?

We estimate roughly 3.5 thousand people bear Eitan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Eitan have the most bearers?

Eitan is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled eitan.

Where is Eitan most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Eitan is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.

Is Eitan a male or female name?

Eitan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.