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Natan

The boy's name Natan has been in the national records since 1968, with 1,623 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 2,284th. About 1,600 Natans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Natan

By the numbers

Total US births
1,623
Estimated living today
1,600
Median age today
14
Peak year
2017
Best rank
2,109th
Rank in 2025
2,284th
First recorded
1968

How old the living Natans are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,623 babies given the name since 1968, about 1,600 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 980 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Natans

People named Natan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Natan is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Natan is most concentrated in New York (4.6×), California (3.3×), Texas (1.4×), Illinois (1.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2017

The most popular boys’ names the year Natan peaked:

All the names of 2017

Natan elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Poland boys Natan 23,320 birth registrations 29th
France boys Natan 2,030 401st
England and Wales boys Natan 1,479 293rd
Italy boys Natan 1,164
Belgium boys Natan 712 269th
Switzerland boys Natan 356 346th
Norway boys Natan 272 217th
Ireland boys Natan 223 210th
Scotland boys Natan 117 268th
Northern Ireland boys Natan 43 244th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Natan: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Natan 181 0.015% 306th
French boys Switzerland Natan 103 0.024% 249th
Italian boys Switzerland Natan 72 0.110% 44th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Natan is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.12% of children were given it – 72 of them.

Natan: rank by region

In 2025, Natan was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Natan 714 7

In 2025, Natan was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.

Region Spelling Place Children
Dolnośląskie Natan 38 70
Kujawsko-Pomorskie Natan 30 50
Lubelskie Natan 35 36
Lubuskie Natan 30 30
Łódzkie Natan 37 46
Małopolskie Natan 55 50
Mazowieckie Natan 60 66
Opolskie Natan 36 21
Podkarpackie Natan 40 43
Podlaskie Natan 41 20
Pomorskie Natan 46 42
Śląskie Natan 54 52
Świętokrzyskie Natan 38 19
Warmińsko-Mazurskie Natan 40 26
Wielkopolskie Natan 45 61
Zachodniopomorskie Natan 30 38

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Natan appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (341st).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Natan by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin boys 2017–2023 8 580th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Natan among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland boys Natan 34 46

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Natan lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 539 men called Natan were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Natan 24 0.045 1,761
Burgos Natan 8 0.044 1,127
Castellón/Castelló Natan 13 0.042 1,370
Tarragona Natan 17 0.039 1,459
Pontevedra Natan 16 0.035 1,139
Gipuzkoa Natan 12 0.033 1,367

Listed in 32 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 20 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Natan against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.