Ethan
The boy's name Ethan has been in the national records since 1882, with 488,144 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 24th. About 479,000 Ethans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ethan boys named Ethan
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 488,144
- Estimated living today
- 479,000
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2004
- Best rank
- 5th
- Rank in 2025
- 24th
- First recorded
- 1882
- Girls / boys
- 755 / 487,389
How old the living Ethans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 488,144 babies given the name since 1882, about 479,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 238,000 of them are children and 600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
From Biblical Hebrew אֵיתָן.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Ethans
- Ethan Hawke (born 1970)American actor and writer
- Ethan Ampadu (born 2000)Welsh association football player
- Ethan Suplee (born 1976)American actor
- Ethan Nwaneri (born 2007)English association football player
- Ethan Allen (1738–1789)American farmer, military officer and politician
- Ethan Horvath (born 1995)American soccer player
- Ethan Katzberg (born 2002)Canadian hammer thrower
- Ethan Mbappé (born 2006)French association football player
People named Ethan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ethan is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ethan is most concentrated in Nevada (2.1×), Alaska (1.8×), Utah (1.7×), Arizona (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2004
The most popular boys’ names the year Ethan peaked:
Ethan elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Ethan | 78,311 | 11th |
| France boys | Ethan +4 spellings | 76,335 | 5th |
| New Zealand boys | Ethan | 7,379 | 5th |
| Scotland boys | Ethan | 5,546 | 4th |
| Belgium boys | Ethan +1 spelling | 5,431 | 16th |
| Ireland boys | Ethan | 4,754 | 34th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Ethan | 3,872 | 4th |
| Italy boys | Ethan | 3,685 | — |
| Switzerland boys | Ethan | 2,146 | 55th |
| Poland boys | Ethan | 362 birth registrations | 190th |
| France girls | Ethan | 70 | 2,772nd |
| Norway boys | Ethan | 24 | 294th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Ethan: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Ethan | 289 | 0.023% | 266th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Ethan | 1,660 | 0.382% | 4th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Ethan | 197 | 0.302% | 18th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Ethan is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.45% of children were given it – 65 of them.
Ethan: rank by region
In 2025, Ethan was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Ethan | 180 | 32 |
| Wallonia | Ethan | 55 | 53 |
| Brussels | Ethan | 40 | 20 |
In 2024, Ethan was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Ethan | 8 | 1 |
In 2025, Ethan was given 2 times or more in 5 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Łódzkie | Ethan | 183 | 2 |
| Mazowieckie | Ethan | 312 | 2 |
| Podkarpackie | Ethan | 158 | 2 |
| Pomorskie | Ethan | 212 | 2 |
| Śląskie | Ethan | 212 | 3 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Ethan appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (40th), Province of Flemish Brabant (45th), Province of Luxembourg (46th), Province of Namur (50th), Province of Hainaut (51st), Province of Liège (54th), Province of Walloon Brabant (64th) and Province of East Flanders (198th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Ethan by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 39 | 309th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Ethan among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Ethan | 149 | 222 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Ethan lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 2,528 men called Ethan were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bizkaia | Ethan | 114 | 0.202 | 422 |
| Araba/Álava | Ethan | 30 | 0.178 | 474 |
| Valencia/València | Ethan | 229 | 0.169 | 455 |
| Guadalajara | Ethan | 24 | 0.165 | 427 |
| Palencia | Ethan | 12 | 0.152 | 479 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Ethan | 144 | 0.143 | 592 |
Listed in 43 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 9 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Ethan against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.