Ethan

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ethan is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guatemala it is the 50th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: The name Ethan has ancient biblical roots and carries a meaning of strength, permanence, and endurance.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 827◐
  • AUAustralia1 in 923
  • ILIsrael1 in 930

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈495K ●

across 10 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
527 ●

629K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 827 ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

EthanLatin · English●728K records
איתןHebrew · Hebrew●73K records
อุธานThai · Thai●34 records
ЭтханCyrillic · Mongolian●1 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Eithan in EC Ecuador, AR Argentina, GT Guatemala and 7 more, איתן in IL Israel and Eytan in FR France.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

The name Ethan has ancient biblical roots and carries a meaning of strength, permanence, and endurance. It belonged to a man famed for his great wisdom and to a skilled musician who served in King David's court, making it a classic name that suggests both intelligence and artistic talent.

Sources 1

  • Biblical Names Compiled Database

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ethan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#679402,294432K rec.1 in 827402KEthan527
AU Australia#183125,58738K rec.—487Ethan195
IL Israel#15572,59892K rec.—2.6Kאיתן112
FR France—72,470△1.5K rec.1 in 93672KEytan137
CA Canada#23357,5267K rec.—141Ethan191
GB United Kingdom#56235,04817K rec.—1.1KEthan194
AR Argentina#97829,66111K rec.—2.4KEithan18
EC Ecuador#33113,108△42 rec.1 in 1.3K13KEithan13
GT Guatemala#5012,75767 rec.—4.2KEithan6
PH Philippines—12,140838 rec.——Ethan81
IE Ireland#1558,310655 rec.—168Ethan73
MY Malaysia#8395,9332.3K rec.—1.7KEthan62

Roughly 402K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 827). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English728K57%
  • French391K30%
  • Spanish62K5%
  • Portuguese19K1%
  • 5.9K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English727,96957%
French390,92430%
Spanish62,3595%
Portuguese18,5351%
5,9351%

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◐

Ethan is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name490K records spelled Ethan5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Brazil, Argentina

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ethãn, Éthan

  • Malay given name5.9K records spelled Ethan3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Indonesia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Ethān

  • Hindi given name5.7K records spelled Ethan9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia, India

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

    Also written Èthâñ, Ethäñ, Éthan

  • Polish given name5.3K records spelled Ethan27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Russia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Итан, Этан, Ітан, Eton, Etan

  • Swahili given name4.6K records spelled Ethan6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Kenya, United Kingdom, Nigeria

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Ethän, Ethãn

  • Finnish given name2.7K records spelled Ethan4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Hungary, United Kingdom

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Éthan

61 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●

Ethan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Ethan is a classic biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning "strong," "enduring," and "firm." In the Bible, Ethan was known for his great wisdom and his role as a musician in the temple, making it a name that suggests strength, reliability, and a creative spirit.

    as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database

  • The Hebrew name Ethan (אֵיתָן, ʾĒṯān) means "strong," "enduring," "firm," or "permanent."

    as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database

  • The Hebrew name Eytan (אֵיתָן) means "strong," "enduring," "firm," or "long-lived."

    as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database

  • A popular male name of Hebrew origin meaning 'strong', 'enduring', or 'firm'.

    as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database

  • In biblical tradition, the name Ethan is associated with wisdom, strength, and faithfulness. Ethan the Ezrahite's authorship of Psalm 89, which movingly explores God's covenant faithfulness amidst suffering, gives the name a deep theological resonance concerning trust and endurance.

    as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database

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●

010K20K30K19001950200022K · 2004

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Ethan in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1882–2025
Yearrecords
18827
188410
18866
18877
18916
18939
18969
18987
19016
19085
19096
19117
191216
191313
191425
191527
191623
191720
191825
191928
192031
192126
192227
192321
192414
192517
192627
192727
192825
192918
193019
193125
193219
193323
193420
193525
193623
193718
193820
193933
194017
194125
194221
194331
194428
194521
194627
194726
194829
194929
195026
195132
195252
195343
195464
195553
195662
195765
195873
195983
196094
1961113
1962132
1963135
1964202
1965183
1966169
1967186
1968169
1969218
1970268
1971365
1972513
1973519
1974525
1975541
1976563
1977674
1978627
1979706
1980706
1981735
1982713
1983732
1984728
1985670
1986598
1987656
1988896
19894,056
19906,989
19916,129
19924,906
19934,164
19944,166
19954,934
19965,853
19977,807
199810,536
199911,446
200015,226
200117,962
200222,113
200321,362
200422,210
200521,318
200620,522
200721,041
200820,223
200919,858
201018,020
201116,702
201217,697
201316,260
201415,749
201515,103
201613,855
201712,483
201811,931
201911,311
20209,556
20218,863
20228,312
20237,810
20248,201
20257,852

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 126 years between 1882–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1700180019002000Ethan Allen, b. 1738Ethan Phillips, b. 1955Ethan Coen, b. 1957Ethan Hawke, b. 1970Ethan Van Sciver, b. 1974Ethan Suplee, b. 1976Ethan Embry, b. 1978Ethan Peck, b. 1986Ethan Cutkosky, b. 1999Ethan Spaulding, b. 2000

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●

Attested in 110 sources across 59 countries.

Official registers attesting Ethan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020402K#116
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202472K#26
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20257.9K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20247.2K#234
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.5K#1,478
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20222.5K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.5K#4,404
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.2K#713
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20201.7K—
MY Malaysiadata.gov.my — Baby Name Popularity Dashboard (HTML-embedded JSON)—1.7K—
GB United KingdomONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024)20241.1K#48
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2024954—

Reference works 4

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,195 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ethan?
We estimate roughly 495 thousand people bear Ethan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Ethan have the most bearers?
We estimate about 402 thousand people bear Ethan in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ethan.
Where is Ethan most common?
Ethan is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 827 people carrying it.
How common is Ethan compared with other names?
In the United States, Ethan is the 679th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Ethan a male or female name?
Ethan 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.
What does the name Ethan mean?
Recorded meaning: The name Ethan has ancient biblical roots and carries a meaning of strength, permanence, and endurance.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ethan” — the 679th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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