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Nathen

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Nathen is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. Its best rank was 770th, in 2004.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
180.00% of boys
Peak year
2006255 births
Best rank
#770in 2004
Since 1902
6,117people given the name
Babies named Nathen, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

6,117 boys have been named Nathen in the United States since 1902, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2006, with 255 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2000s alone account for 36%. It has spent 15 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Nathen
1900s8
1910s45
1920s92
1930s78
1940s51
1950s83
1960s102
1970s363
1980s841
1990s1,170
2000s2,186
2010s975
2020s123

In 2006, its biggest year

Nathen was the 803rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2006 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Ethan and Matthew. See all of 2006.

Names that rose and fell with Nathen

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.