Ethan

Where Ethan comes from

From Biblical Hebrew אֵיתָן (ʾêṯān, literally “firmness, strong, or long-lived”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Ethan
  • Hebrew
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #754 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1970
    Ethan Hawke born
    American actor and writer
  3. 2000
    Ethan Ampadu born
    Welsh association football player
  4. 2009
    Peak, #2
    19,858 babies named Ethan — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2020
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #13.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew, of mostly American usage since the 18th century; popular in the 2000s.
Namesakes
  • Ethan Hawke · American actor and writer, born 1970
  • Ethan Ampadu · Welsh association football player, born 2000
  • Ethan Suplee · American actor, born 1976
  • Ethan Nwaneri · English association football player, born 2007
  • Ethan Allen · American farmer, military officer and politician, 1738–1789

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.