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Nathen

Nathen is a boy's name that peaked in 2006, when it was the 801st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 3,949th. About 5,700 Nathens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Nathen

By the numbers

Total US births
6,146
Estimated living today
5,700
Median age today
23
Peak year
2006
Best rank
801st
Rank in 2025
3,949th
First recorded
1902

How old the living Nathens are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 6,146 babies given the name since 1902, about 5,700 are alive — 93 in every hundred. Roughly 1,600 of them are children and 100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 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.

Where Nathen is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Nathen is most concentrated in Washington (3.5×), California (3.2×), Texas (1.8×), Michigan (1.8×).

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

Names of 2006

The most popular boys’ names the year Nathen peaked:

All the names of 2006

Nathen elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Nathen 141 1,110th
Ireland boys Nathen 10 611th
Scotland boys Nathen 10 358th
France boys Nathen 5 3,569th

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.

Related names

Nathen 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.