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The first name 
Etan

Etan is a first name for boys.

Etan – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Etan has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Etan. That means that a boy named Etan is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Etan.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Etan

Etan -
once in a blue moon

Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Etan. Boys named Etan have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 2,193 Etan ranked higher than ever before in 1983. By comparison, there have been 107 years in which the first name Etan has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their sons Etan only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves exceptional!

In years where the graph has no value, the name Etan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Etan -
at home in

If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Etan, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in . However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Etan living in one state or another. (If your name is Etan and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 510,644 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Etan. So if your name is Etan, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Etan already makes you quite special.

Etan has 4 letters 
and begins with an E

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 3.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.

With four letters, the name Etan is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 3.8%, E as the first letter in boys' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the boys' names that start with an E, Edward is the most common.

Other names with 
E, t, a and n

If you take all the letters in the name Etan – E, t, a and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Aten or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Etan

If your name is Etan and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Etan

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Etan, you can simply say:

Elephant

Tiger

Apple

Nut

This is how the name Etan is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Etan in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Etan

Etan

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Etan

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Etan is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

E
T
A
N

Have you ever waved the name Etan

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

E
T
A
N

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Etan sounds like this: