Naithan
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 10 babies a year in England and Wales.
Naithan by the numbers
In 2025, 10 babies in England and Wales were named Naithan. In the US, 7 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 20 babies in 2009, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Naithan
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Naithan. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Nathanhe gave7,398 in the US (2017)
- Naythanhe gave; a respelling of Nathan3 in England and Wales (2025)
- Neithan7 in England and Wales (2025)
- Natanhe gave; a form of Nathan43 in England and Wales (2025)
- Nathenhe gave; a form of Nathan50 in the US (2017)
- Nishansign, mark, or symbol; variant of Nishaan6 in England and Wales (2025)
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