Iam
Iam was given to 98 boys in 2025, #1,681 among boys’ names; 561 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Iam by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Iam?
#1,681 among boys’ names, 2025
Iam rose from #5,145 in 2015 to #1,681 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 9.4 to 57.4 per million.
98 babies in 2025, the peak
Iam peaked in 2025, when 98 boys were given it, #1,681 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 93 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 98 | #1,681 | 57.4 |
| 2024 | 93 | #1,769 | 54.0 |
| 2023 | 79 | #1,958 | 46.2 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,026 | 23.5 |
| 2021 | 27 | #3,943 | 15.4 |
| 2020 | 25 | #4,058 | 14.5 |
| 2019 | 26 | #4,048 | 14.5 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,875 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 22 | #4,517 | 11.9 |
| 2016 | 22 | #4,519 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,145 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,793 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,050 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,101 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,012 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,252 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,914 | 5.0 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,579 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,417 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,330 | 2.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,133 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,401 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,129 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Iam a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Iam has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Iam: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Iam, and how old are they?
An estimated 556 Americans named Iam and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 9. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 470 people named Iam (63 women and girls, 407 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 202 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Iam
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.
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