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Etham

Gender
Boy
Say it
EE-tham
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#5,859 for boys

Etham is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “firm, enduring”. In 2025 it ranked 5,859th for boys in the US (15 babies).

What does Etham mean?

Hebrew: probably a variant of Ethan; Etham is also a camp in Exodus

“firm, enduring”

Is Etham a girl's or a boy's name?

Etham is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Etham in the US?

Rank in 2025
5,859th among boys
Babies in 2025
15 about 1 in 110,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 15 boys in the US were named Etham, making it the 5,859th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2024, with 16 boys. It first appears in the records in 2016.

Half of all the boys named Etham in the US since 1880 were born between 2022 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.

2016Busiest: 16 in 20242025
Etham in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202515#5,859
202416#5,655
20238#8,916
20228#8,983
20210–
20200–
20190–
20180–
20170–
20165#12,180

Names like Etham

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Etham: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/etham, updated 20 October 2026.