Ean
Ean was given to 89 boys in 2025, #1,797 among boys’ names; 6,562 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,440 Americans named Ean and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ean by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ean mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ean is “a male given name from Manx.”
From Manx Ean, an equivalent of John.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ean?
#1,797 among boys’ names, 2025
Ean fell from #979 in 2015 to #1,797 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.11 to 0.05 per 1,000.
289 babies in 2007, the peak
Ean peaked in 2007, when 289 boys were given it, #760 among boys’ names. The 89 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 89 | #1,797 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 137 | #1,373 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 147 | #1,300 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 126 | #1,441 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 139 | #1,334 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 125 | #1,391 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 181 | #1,098 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 177 | #1,107 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 178 | #1,095 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 194 | #1,030 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 211 | #979 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 208 | #994 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 251 | #852 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 242 | #876 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 272 | #807 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 264 | #811 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 275 | #809 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 247 | #861 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 289 | #760 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 267 | #776 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 220 | #841 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 220 | #816 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 216 | #804 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 157 | #995 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 145 | #1,019 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 155 | #968 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 154 | #943 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 130 | #1,037 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 78 | #1,401 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 88 | #1,256 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 75 | #1,356 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 83 | #1,279 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 69 | #1,395 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 57 | #1,548 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 52 | #1,612 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 48 | #1,684 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 61 | #1,396 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 37 | #1,821 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 46 | #1,543 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 41 | #1,599 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 46 | #1,454 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 32 | #1,771 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 31 | #1,791 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 43 | #1,467 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 24 | #2,150 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 36 | #1,632 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 25 | #2,063 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 28 | #1,843 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 22 | #2,144 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 23 | #2,067 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,560 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 17 | #2,382 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 14 | #2,633 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 17 | #2,268 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,858 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 14 | #2,540 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,579 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,823 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ean a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ean has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ean: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ean, and how old are they?
6,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,562 Americans ever recorded as Ean. The median Ean alive today is 18 years old; half are between 11 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 5,455 people named Ean (99 women and girls, 5,356 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,741 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 212 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 794 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,150 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Ean born?
The states with the most babies named Ean are Texas, California and New York, with 63% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #1,585 | 0.8× |
| California | 10 | #1,619 | 0.7× |
| New York | 10 | #1,149 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,514 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #949 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,285 | 1.0× |
Where Ean is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ean is most over-represented in New York: since 1968 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ean with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,452 babies since 1880, Ean is the most given (49% of them). In 2025 it was given to 89 of their 225 babies (40%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ean
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ean and names like it
- Compare Ean and EianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEan peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ean since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Ean.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ean alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.