Meaning not yet researched.
Nathen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #770 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #770 in 2004; #4,012 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nathen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,012 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #770.
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Nathen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 boys in 2025. Peak: #770 in 2004 · most boys in one year: 255 (2006).
In 2025, 27 US boys were named Nathen, making it the 4,012th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,366 places from #5,378 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 18 boys named Nathen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #770, reached in 2004. The most boys given the name in a single year was 255, in 2006. For comparison, it was #1,839 in 2015 and #2,288 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nathen in 107 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1902 with 8 babies. In all, 6,146 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,187 babies named Nathen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 345 US boys were named Nathen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 58. In 2025 that was about 1 in 63,262 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nathan (589,271 babies since 1880) and Natan (1,623 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 Nathen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 27 | #4,012 |
| 2024 | — | — | 18 | #5,378 |
| 2023 | — | — | 21 | #4,842 |
| 2022 | — | — | 30 | #3,743 |
| 2021 | — | — | 25 | #4,197 |
| 2020 | — | — | 29 | #3,705 |
| 2019 | — | — | 43 | #2,887 |
| 2018 | — | — | 44 | #2,784 |
| 2017 | — | — | 50 | #2,553 |
| 2016 | — | — | 58 | #2,297 |
| 2015 | — | — | 81 | #1,839 |
| 2014 | — | — | 91 | #1,689 |
| 2013 | — | — | 122 | #1,383 |
| 2012 | — | — | 163 | #1,127 |
| 2011 | — | — | 163 | #1,124 |
| 2010 | — | — | 161 | #1,153 |
| 2009 | — | — | 210 | #961 |
| 2008 | — | — | 245 | #867 |
| 2007 | — | — | 226 | #890 |
| 2006 | — | — | 255 | #803 |
| 2005 | — | — | 253 | #778 |
| 2004 | — | — | 236 | #770 |
| 2003 | — | — | 190 | #890 |
| 2002 | — | — | 194 | #857 |
| 2001 | — | — | 196 | #831 |
| 2000 | — | — | 182 | #871 |
| 1999 | — | — | 173 | #878 |
| 1998 | — | — | 147 | #952 |
| 1997 | — | — | 124 | #1,035 |
| 1996 | — | — | 110 | #1,098 |
| 1995 | — | — | 114 | #1,049 |
| 1994 | — | — | 106 | #1,095 |
| 1993 | — | — | 90 | #1,183 |
| 1992 | — | — | 86 | #1,218 |
| 1991 | — | — | 114 | #1,013 |
| 1990 | — | — | 106 | #1,032 |
| 1989 | — | — | 98 | #1,053 |
| 1988 | — | — | 100 | #969 |
| 1987 | — | — | 87 | #1,021 |
| 1986 | — | — | 82 | #1,027 |
| 1985 | — | — | 81 | #1,019 |
| 1984 | — | — | 68 | #1,094 |
| 1983 | — | — | 72 | #1,046 |
| 1982 | — | — | 89 | #955 |
| 1981 | — | — | 82 | #1,007 |
| 1980 | — | — | 82 | #1,001 |
| 1979 | — | — | 56 | #1,237 |
| 1978 | — | — | 47 | #1,342 |
| 1977 | — | — | 54 | #1,202 |
| 1976 | — | — | 52 | #1,205 |
| 1975 | — | — | 39 | #1,419 |
| 1974 | — | — | 28 | #1,737 |
| 1973 | — | — | 31 | #1,573 |
| 1972 | — | — | 23 | #1,909 |
| 1971 | — | — | 20 | #2,098 |
| 1970 | — | — | 13 | #2,705 |
| 1969 | — | — | 12 | #2,644 |
| 1968 | — | — | 16 | #2,083 |
| 1967 | — | — | 10 | #2,721 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,351 |
| 1965 | — | — | 9 | #2,925 |
| 1964 | — | — | 10 | #2,789 |
| 1963 | — | — | 10 | #2,803 |
| 1962 | — | — | 9 | #2,990 |
| 1961 | — | — | 11 | #2,652 |
| 1960 | — | — | 10 | #2,809 |
| 1959 | — | — | 13 | #2,379 |
| 1958 | — | — | 9 | #2,969 |
| 1957 | — | — | 10 | #2,772 |
| 1956 | — | — | 7 | #3,434 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,768 |
| 1954 | — | — | 11 | #2,557 |
| 1952 | — | — | 8 | #3,030 |
| 1951 | — | — | 7 | #3,263 |
| 1950 | — | — | 12 | #2,288 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,590 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #4,030 |
| 1947 | — | — | 13 | #2,226 |
| 1945 | — | — | 9 | #2,523 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,892 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,448 |
| 1940 | — | — | 7 | #3,046 |
| 1938 | — | — | 9 | #2,593 |
| 1937 | — | — | 8 | #2,827 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #3,071 |
| 1935 | — | — | 11 | #2,350 |
| 1934 | — | — | 12 | #2,219 |
| 1933 | — | — | 11 | #2,321 |
| 1932 | — | — | 9 | #2,783 |
| 1930 | — | — | 11 | #2,560 |
| 1929 | — | — | 8 | #3,166 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #3,000 |
| 1927 | — | — | 7 | #3,686 |
| 1926 | — | — | 12 | #2,516 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,700 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,197 |
| 1923 | — | — | 11 | #2,724 |
| 1922 | — | — | 15 | #2,213 |
| 1921 | — | — | 12 | #2,586 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,715 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,595 |
| 1918 | — | — | 9 | #3,028 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,460 |
| 1916 | — | — | 10 | #2,677 |
| 1915 | — | — | 9 | #2,762 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,773 |
| 1902 | — | — | 8 | #903 |
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).