Meaning not yet researched.
Neithan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 371 in 2025. Its best rank was #723 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Neithan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#723 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Neithan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 371 boys in 2025. Peak: #723 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 371 (2025).
In 2025, 371 US boys were named Neithan, making it the 723rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 656 places from #1,379 in 2024. That is 234 more than the 137 boys named Neithan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #723, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 371. For comparison, it was #4,659 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Neithan in 19 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2003 with 7 babies. In all, 906 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 678 babies named Neithan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 815 US boys were named Neithan; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 371. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,604 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Neithan ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #324 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Neythan (919 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nithin and Nehitan are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nithin (373), Nehitan (6).
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 Neithan 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 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 17 | #324 | — |
| Colorado | 13 | #458 | — |
| Texas | 71 | #471 | — |
| Illinois | 18 | #539 | — |
| Tennessee | 14 | #543 | — |
| Oregon | 6 | #578 | — |
| New Jersey | 12 | #595 | — |
| California | 47 | #621 | #2,816 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #646 | — |
| Alabama | 7 | #665 | — |
| South Carolina | 6 | #718 | — |
| Georgia | 13 | #747 | — |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #760 | — |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #763 | — |
| Virginia | 9 | #775 | — |
| Florida | 19 | #798 | — |
| New York | 17 | #832 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #866 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #985 | — |
| North Carolina | 8 | #997 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,041 | — |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,073 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).