Eathen

History & Origin

Eathen is a respelling of Ethan, a name drawn from the Hebrew Eitan, meaning 'firm', 'strong', or 'enduring'. Ethan became enormously popular in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and phonetic spellings like Eathen appeared alongside the standard form.

Eathen itself stayed uncommon, given to only a few dozen boys a year around its peak in the mid two-thousands even as Ethan flourished. A boy named Eathen then is still young today, so the spelling reads as a recent variant rather than a revival of anything older.