Dathan
#10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · boys
- 1975 · 50 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,571since 1958
Dathan over time
Rank among boys' names. Dathan has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | #6,296 | 13 |
| 2019 | #5,153 | 18 |
| 2018 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | #4,470 | 22 |
| 2015 | #6,676 | 12 |
| 2014 | #4,866 | 19 |
| 2013 | #4,313 | 22 |
| 2012 | #3,231 | 34 |
| 2011 | #3,000 | 38 |
| 2010 | #3,308 | 33 |
| 2009 | #2,663 | 46 |
| 2008 | #3,057 | 38 |
| 2007 | #2,721 | 44 |
| 2006 | #2,621 | 45 |
| 2005 | #2,237 | 53 |
| 2004 | #3,860 | 23 |
| 2003 | #2,312 | 46 |
| 2002 | #2,556 | 38 |
| 2001 | #2,151 | 48 |
| 2000 | #2,425 | 39 |
| 1999 | #2,231 | 41 |
| 1998 | #2,450 | 35 |
| 1997 | #2,680 | 29 |
| 1996 | #2,911 | 25 |
| 1995 | #2,923 | 24 |
| 1994 | #2,951 | 24 |
| 1993 | #2,865 | 24 |
| 1992 | #2,834 | 24 |
| 1991 | #3,224 | 19 |
| 1990 | #2,432 | 28 |
| 1989 | #2,245 | 30 |
| 1988 | #3,523 | 14 |
| 1987 | #2,215 | 26 |
| 1986 | #2,779 | 18 |
| 1985 | #1,916 | 30 |
| 1984 | #2,159 | 24 |
| 1983 | #3,071 | 14 |
| 1982 | #2,059 | 26 |
| 1981 | #1,629 | 36 |
| 1980 | #1,808 | 31 |
| 1979 | #1,270 | 52 |
| 1978 | #2,134 | 22 |
| 1977 | #1,450 | 40 |
| 1976 | #1,781 | 28 |
| 1975 | #1,191 | 50 |
| 1974 | #1,501 | 34 |
| 1973 | #1,696 | 27 |
| 1972 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,521 | 8 |
| 1969 | #2,682 | 11 |
| 1968 | #4,136 | 5 |
| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | #2,465 | 11 |
| 1965 | #2,476 | 11 |
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| 1963 | #4,048 | 5 |
| 1962 | #3,640 | 6 |
| 1961 | #3,356 | 7 |
| 1960 | #2,685 | 10 |
| 1959 | #3,290 | 7 |
| 1958 | #2,818 | 9 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dathan! It came in at #2,818, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1963–1964, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Dathan is popular in 1974
No state had 5 or more boys named Dathan in 1974, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Dathan
- 2,383 spots since 2024 (#8,312 → #10,695)
- 4,399 spots since 2020 (#6,296 → #10,695)
- 4,019 spots since 2015 (#6,676 → #10,695)
- Debuted 1958
- Peaked 1975 at #1,191 (50 births)
- Births halved by 1978, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 31,227 boys born in 1975 were named Dathan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 26.7% of all boys named Dathan (420) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 16 | #2,818 (1958) | #3,054 |
| 1960s | 71 | #2,465 (1966) | #3,273 |
| 1970s | 269 | #1,191 (1975) | #2,018 |
| 1980s | 249 | #1,629 (1981) | #2,340 |
| 1990s | 273 | #2,231 (1999) | #2,750 |
| 2000s | 420 | #2,151 (2001) | #2,660 |
| 2010s | 221 | #3,000 (2011) | #4,923 |
| 2020s | 52 | #6,296 (2020) | #8,913 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dathan in 1974
Top boys' names in 1974
More about 1974
boys
1,572,334 boys got a published name in 1974; 1 in 46,245 of them was named Dathan, which outranked 75.0% of the 6,004 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,471Salomon35
- #1,471Sunny35
- #1,471Tonya35
- #1,501Dathan34
- #1,501Carleton34
- #1,501Daryle34
- #1,501Eriberto34
- #1,520Akil33
- #1,520Anastasios33
- #1,520Cy33
Tied with 18 names at #1,501; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.