Eytan

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Ethan in US United States, AU Australia, CA Canada and 14 more, Eithan in EC Ecuador, AR Argentina, GT Guatemala and 7 more and איתן in IL Israel.

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

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◐

Eytan is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name3.5K records spelled Eytan7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Israel, Australia, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written Eytán

• Spanish given name1.3K records spelled Eytan4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Mexico, Chile

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Èytan, Eytán

• Russian given name87 records spelled Eytan16 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, United States, Israel, Ukraine

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

  Also written Эйтан, Eitan, Эитан, Ейтан, Еітан

35 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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 42 years between 1980–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Eytan Rockawayb. 1901USAmerican film director
• Eytan Sheshinskib. 1937ILIsraeli economist
• Eytan Eytanb. 1940ILIsraeli poet (1940-1991)
• Eytan Stibbeb. 1958ILIsraeli businessman
• Eytan Avrielb. 1960ILIsraeli journalist
• Eytan Pessenb. 1961ILVocal coach, Opera director
• Eytan Mirskyb. 1962USAmerican singer-songwriter
• Eytan Foxb. 1964USIsraeli film director
• Eytan Schwartzb. 1974ILmedia person and Director of Tel Aviv Municipality
• Eitan Tibib. 1987ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli association footballer

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 · 153 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Eytan?

We estimate roughly 495 thousand people bear Eytan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Eytan have the most bearers?

We estimate about 402 thousand people bear Eytan in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ethan.

Where is Eytan most common?

Eytan is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 827 people carrying it.

How common is Eytan compared with other names?

In the United States, Eytan is the 679th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Eytan a male or female name?

Eytan 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.