Ethan
Ethan holds the #24 spot in the 2025 national count, neither climbing nor fading. On the books since 1882, peaking in 2004: 487,389 American children so far.
Ethan’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Ethan, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Ethan since 1882
Ethan peaked in 2004 at #5; #24 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Ethan is most common
Ethan is most common in Rhode Island: 0.83% of the state's recorded boys' names in 2025. Maryland (0.8%) and Connecticut (0.76%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Ethan
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Ella
#29 in 2025 · Teutonic
Eli
#104 in 2025
Easton
#110 in 2025
Evan
#153 in 2025 · Celtic
Elliott
#160 in 2025
Emma
#3 in 2025 · Teutonic
Julian
#25 in 2025 · Latin
Aria
#26 in 2025
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About Ethan
How popular is the name Ethan?
Ethan holds the #24 spot in the 2025 national count, neither climbing nor fading. The full curve since 1882 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Ethan mean?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Ethan keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
Which names sit near Ethan?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Ella, Eli and Easton, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Ethan’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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