Eitan
From Hebrew, where the word means strong and enduring: in scripture it names a stream that holds its water through the dry season. In Poland it stays rare, a name most people have never met, and always given to boys.
Eitan Pronunciation
Eitan is pronounced e-EE-tahn (/ɛˈitan/).
What Eitan means
Where Eitan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Eitan comes from Hebrew, where the word איתן carries the sense strong, firm, enduring. In scripture it describes a stream that never runs dry, a nachal eitan, water that holds through the long dry season. The name grew from that picture of permanence.
Scripture hands the name to a person too. Ethan the Ezrahite, praised for his wisdom, appears in the heading of Psalm 89. A Polish reader might recognise the same root in the English spelling Ethan, though the Hebrew keeps it closer to ay-TAHN.
The meaning has stayed close to the word itself. Picture a teacher reading the class register in a Warsaw school, pausing at the spelling before the child answers. Eitan sits among the Antonis and Zuzannas and asks to be learned once. Eitan means firm. In Hebrew it is still איתן, strong and enduring.
How many people are named Eitan
1 in 114764 men in Poland is named Eitan. 186 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2323 among male names.
Eitan's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Eitan as a middle name
Eitan is a first name for 186 men in Poland and a middle name for another 16, a 92/8 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2306th, between Edvard (16) and Eka (16).
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#2304 Doman16
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#2305 Edvard16
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#2306 Eitan16
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#2307 Eka16
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#2308 Eray16