Ehsan
Ehsan was given to 32 boys in 2025, #3,533 among boys’ names; 542 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ehsan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ehsan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ehsan is “a transliteration of the Persian male given name احسان (ehsân).” Its etymology gives the sense “favor, kindness, beneficence” (literally).
From Persian احسان (ehsân, literally “favor, kindness, beneficence”), from Arabic إِحْسَان (ʔiḥsān).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ehsan?
#3,533 among boys’ names, 2025
Ehsan rose from #5,353 in 2015 to #3,533 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 8.9 to 18.7 per million.
36 babies in 2024, the peak
Ehsan peaked in 2024, when 36 boys were given it, #3,289 among boys’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 89% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #3,533 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 36 | #3,289 | 20.9 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,917 | 16.4 |
| 2022 | 18 | #5,264 | 10.3 |
| 2021 | 24 | #4,275 | 13.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,665 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,395 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 19 | #4,976 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,346 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,183 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #5,353 | 8.9 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,110 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,507 | 11.1 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,090 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,490 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,130 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,536 | 6.6 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,870 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,379 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,946 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,467 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,123 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,939 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,197 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,066 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,663 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,385 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,456 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,675 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,237 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,150 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,893 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,581 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,430 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,791 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,336 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,663 | 3.7 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,671 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,077 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,024 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 10 | #3,928 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,688 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,554 | 3.5 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,137 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ehsan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ehsan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ehsan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ehsan, and how old are they?
An estimated 531 Americans named Ehsan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 5 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,540 people named Ehsan (120 women and girls, 1,420 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 389 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,602 babies since 1880, Ehsan is the second most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 153 babies (21%), again the second 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 Ehsan
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 Ehsan and names like it
- Compare Ehsan and EasonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Ehsan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ehsan alive today were born 2013-2025.
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