Iann
Iann was given to 19 boys in 2025, #5,100 among boys’ names; 591 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Iann by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Iann?
#5,100 among boys’ names, 2025
Iann fell from #3,618 in 2015 to #5,100 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.7 to 11.1 per million.
33 babies in 2010, the peak
Iann peaked in 2010, when 33 boys were given it, #3,338 among boys’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #5,100 | 11.1 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,515 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 24 | #4,384 | 14.0 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,027 | 15.5 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,538 | 12.6 |
| 2020 | 31 | #3,522 | 18.0 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,412 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,385 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 27 | #3,914 | 14.6 |
| 2016 | 26 | #4,037 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #3,618 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 29 | #3,646 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 28 | #3,692 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,301 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,270 | 12.1 |
| 2010 | 33 | #3,338 | 17.2 |
| 2009 | 19 | #5,000 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 25 | #4,072 | 12.3 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,804 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,259 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,676 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,865 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 32 | #3,012 | 16.2 |
| 2002 | 24 | #3,595 | 12.4 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,178 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,499 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,526 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,894 | 3.1 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,314 | 3.2 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,270 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,704 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Iann a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Iann has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Iann: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Iann, and how old are they?
An estimated 584 Americans named Iann and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 483 people named Iann (56 women and girls, 427 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 454 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 263,141 babies since 1880, Iann is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 4,024 babies (<1%), again the third 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 Iann
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 Iann and names like it
- Compare Iann and IanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sIann peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Iann since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Iann.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Iann alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.