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Lathen

Boy · LAY-thun · Modern

Lathen is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).

Where does Lathen come from?

Modern: spelling of Lathan; probably a rhyme of Nathan, or from the surname Latham

Say it
LAY-thun

Meaning borrowed from Lathan.

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

Lathen is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Lathen in the US?

Rank in 2025
#12,003among boys
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 340,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Lathen, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 43 boys. It first appears in the records in 1992.

2025 had fewer boys named Lathen than any year since 2020.

Half of all the boys named Lathen in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 66 boys in the US were given Lathen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,878, up from #12,003 for this spelling alone.

1992Busiest: 43 in 20102025
Lathen in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20255#12,003
20246#10,930
202318#5,250
202212#6,822
202115#5,771
20205#12,016
201915#5,808
20187#9,664
201720#4,742
20169#8,141
201510#7,486
201413#6,303
201322#4,311
201216#5,476
201123#4,219
201043#2,786
200922#4,427
200816#5,482
200720#4,638
200617#5,068
200518#4,626
200412#6,132
200321#3,971
200210#6,515
20018#7,529
20009#6,832
199912#5,311
19980–
19979#6,094
19960–
19950–
19940–
19930–
19928#6,120

Names like Lathen

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

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