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Eitan

Meaning not yet sourced

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #920 vs #4,275 in 2025

CommonRare
Rank 2015: #1,677, 2016: #1,575, 2017: #1,644, 2018: #1,744, 2019: #1,534, 2020: #1,922, 2021: #1,583, 2022: #1,314, 2023: #1,205, 2024: #1,114, 2025: #9201 in 6,672 boys in the US, 2025#920 · rising · was #1,677 in 2015
CommonRare
Rank 2015: #3,373, 2016: #2,556, 2017: #2,734, 2018: #3,011, 2019: #2,266, 2021: #3,990, 2022: #3,450, 2023: #4,992, 2024: #5,120, 2025: #4,2751 in 67,984 boys in E&W, 2025#4,275 · falling · was #3,373 in 2015

Boy’s name · Hebrew

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What Eitan means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Eitan yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #920 vs #4,275 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Eitan?

US 2025
#920
256 babies
▲ 194 vs 2024
England & Wales 2025
#4275
4 babies
▲ 845 vs 2024
Scotland
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Not listed

US: Rising: up from #1677 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #3373 in 2015.

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US, 1880–2025England & Wales, 1996–2025Babies per 1,000 boys born. Dot: biggest US share (2025)

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 256 boys got the name (#920 that year). First in the US records in 1975.

How common

  • About 1 in 6,672 baby boys in the US in 2025
  • About 1 in 67,984 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NJ (0.5 per 1,000 boys), NY (0.36 per 1,000 boys), FL (0.32 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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FewerMore · grey: under 5 babies, not listed

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Eitan is #920 in the US and #4275 in England & Wales (2025).

Rank 2025BabiesHow commonRank 2015
US#9202561 in 6,672#1677
England & Wales#427541 in 67,984#3373
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Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Eitan were boys.

GirlsBoys
US 20250256
England & Wales 202504
US all years since 188002,844
England & Wales since 19960129

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

  • Aidan1,043 US · 171 E&W
  • Eiden558 US · 13 E&W
  • Eidan187 US
  • Eydan99 US
  • Edan36 US · 14 E&W
  • Idan30 US
  • Eytan18 US
  • Etan6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Eitan

Boys

  • Elias#13Form of Elijah, meaning “Yahweh is my god”
  • Moshe#435possibly “to give birth to”
  • Avi#832“father”
  • Asa#483“physician, doctor, healer”
  • Zev#864“wolf”
  • Yehuda#740Editor’s note Up from #939 in 2015 to #740 in 2025 in the US

For a sister

  • Eliana#10Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
  • Naomi#47“my pleasantness”
  • Rivka#628Same root as Rebecca, meaning “enchantingly beautiful, captivating…
  • Chaya#587“living”
  • Zara#212“flower”
  • Keziah#766Variant of Kezia, meaning “cassia tree”

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Eitan’s. Rank is US 2025.

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