Iban
Iban was last recorded in 2019, when 6 babies were given it; 524 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Iban by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Iban?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,288, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 2002, the peak
Iban peaked in 2002, when 29 boys were given it, #3,131 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 6 | #11,288 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,004 | 2.7 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,235 | 3.1 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,107 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,310 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,100 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,961 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 10 | #7,901 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,875 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,748 | 9.2 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 15 | #5,387 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,914 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,554 | 12.7 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,131 | 14.9 |
| 2001 | 20 | #4,018 | 10.3 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,458 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,745 | 10.4 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,753 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,089 | 12.7 |
| 1996 | 22 | #3,236 | 11.6 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,475 | 10.0 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,373 | 10.4 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,504 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,146 | 10.5 |
| 1991 | 19 | #3,252 | 9.4 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,842 | 7.3 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,486 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,024 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,705 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,249 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,897 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,793 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,664 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,934 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,787 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,675 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,636 | 3.5 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,340 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,199 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,409 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Iban a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Iban has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Iban: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Iban, and how old are they?
An estimated 507 Americans named Iban and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 22 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 601 people named Iban (9 women and girls, 592 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 512 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above 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).
Where are babies named Iban born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 130 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Texas | 49 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Iban is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Iban is most over-represented in California: since 1973 it was given 1.8 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 Iban 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,451 babies since 1880, Iban is the second most given (36% of them).
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 Iban
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 Iban and names like it
- Compare Iban and IbnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sIban peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Iban since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Iban.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Iban alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.