Ethan
A Hebrew name meaning strong, firm, enduring. In Poland it stays rare, given only to boys and to just a handful of newborns a year, though those numbers have been climbing lately.
Ethan Pronunciation
What Ethan means
Where Ethan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Ethan begins in Hebrew, where its root means strength that holds and does not break. The old texts use the same word for a stream that keeps running in summer, water still there when other beds have gone to dust. Endurance, then, over force.
One of the earliest men to carry it was Ethan the Ezrahite, credited in the Hebrew Bible with the eighty-ninth Psalm and remembered in the Book of Kings for his wisdom. Puritan families in England later pulled the name back from Scripture, and it crossed to America, where Ethan Allen led Vermont's Green Mountain Boys during the Revolution. The English-speaking world has kept it close since.
On a Polish class register today it reads as a clear foreign import, with no diminutive to soften it and no Polish variant to stand behind. What a child gets is the bare Hebrew word and its meaning: mocny, trwały, niezłomny.
How many people are named Ethan
1 in 33146 men in Poland is named Ethan. 644 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1171 among male names.
Ethan's popularity over time
14 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #609 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2005.
Where Ethan is most popular
Ethan is most popular in Lower Silesian, 139% above the national average (8 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+128%) and Pomeranian (+59%). It is least common in Silesian and Subcarpathian, 38% and 22% below average respectively.
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Lower Silesian8 boys born+139%
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Lesser Poland11 boys born+128%
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Pomeranian5 boys born+59%
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Łódź4 boys born+48%
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Warmian-Masurian2 boys born+31%
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Masovian7 boys born−7%
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Greater Poland4 boys born−13%
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Subcarpathian2 boys born−22%
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Silesian3 boys born−38%
Ethan as a middle name
Ethan is a first name for 644 men in Poland and a middle name for another 142, an 82/18 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 590th, between Christophe (142) and Mahmoud (142).
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#588 Muhammad144
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#589 Christophe142
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#590 Ethan142
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#591 Mahmoud142
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#592 Stiven142