Meaning not yet researched.
Natan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 61 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,124 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,124 in 2017; #2,298 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Natan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,298 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #2,124.
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Natan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 61 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,124 in 2017 · most boys in one year: 65 (2022).
In 2025, 61 US boys were named Natan, making it the 2,298th most common boys’ name of the year, up 198 places from #2,496 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 55 boys named Natan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,124, reached in 2017. The most boys given the name in a single year was 65, in 2022. For comparison, it was #2,340 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Natan in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 5 babies. In all, 1,623 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 535 babies named Natan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 592 US boys were named Natan; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 65. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,001 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Natan ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #1,099 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nathan (589,271 babies since 1880) and Nathen (6,146 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Natan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 5 | #1,099 | — |
| New York | 10 | #1,184 | #1,439 |
| Texas | 5 | #2,841 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 61 | #2,298 |
| 2024 | — | — | 55 | #2,496 |
| 2023 | — | — | 55 | #2,469 |
| 2022 | — | — | 65 | #2,231 |
| 2021 | — | — | 57 | #2,403 |
| 2020 | — | — | 60 | #2,280 |
| 2019 | — | — | 52 | #2,544 |
| 2018 | — | — | 60 | #2,276 |
| 2017 | — | — | 65 | #2,124 |
| 2016 | — | — | 62 | #2,198 |
| 2015 | — | — | 56 | #2,340 |
| 2014 | — | — | 47 | #2,607 |
| 2013 | — | — | 45 | #2,654 |
| 2012 | — | — | 58 | #2,257 |
| 2011 | — | — | 43 | #2,780 |
| 2010 | — | — | 47 | #2,616 |
| 2009 | — | — | 50 | #2,548 |
| 2008 | — | — | 46 | #2,707 |
| 2007 | — | — | 47 | #2,632 |
| 2006 | — | — | 43 | #2,727 |
| 2005 | — | — | 36 | #2,941 |
| 2004 | — | — | 50 | #2,299 |
| 2003 | — | — | 28 | #3,339 |
| 2002 | — | — | 33 | #2,867 |
| 2001 | — | — | 28 | #3,201 |
| 2000 | — | — | 32 | #2,845 |
| 1999 | — | — | 29 | #2,915 |
| 1998 | — | — | 28 | #2,904 |
| 1997 | — | — | 24 | #3,127 |
| 1996 | — | — | 11 | #5,427 |
| 1995 | — | — | 20 | #3,399 |
| 1994 | — | — | 19 | #3,555 |
| 1993 | — | — | 13 | #4,617 |
| 1992 | — | — | 16 | #3,865 |
| 1991 | — | — | 13 | #4,404 |
| 1990 | — | — | 16 | #3,722 |
| 1989 | — | — | 18 | #3,290 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #4,088 |
| 1987 | — | — | 9 | #4,835 |
| 1986 | — | — | 13 | #3,592 |
| 1985 | — | — | 11 | #3,963 |
| 1984 | — | — | 13 | #3,396 |
| 1983 | — | — | 12 | #3,555 |
| 1982 | — | — | 11 | #3,873 |
| 1980 | — | — | 12 | #3,551 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,710 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #4,063 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #4,949 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,402 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,366 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,557 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).