Idris
Idris was given to 391 boys in 2025, #694 among boys’ names; 5,084 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,970 Americans named Idris and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Idris by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Idris mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Idris is “a male given name from Welsh, popularized by actor Idris Elba.”
Also “a male given name from Arabic.”
Borrowed from Welsh Idris.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Idris?
#694 among boys’ names, 2025
Idris rose from #1,293 in 2015 to #694 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.07 to 0.23 per 1,000.
397 babies in 2025, the peak
Idris peaked in 2025, when 397 babies were given it (391 boys, #694 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 348 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 391 | #694 | 0.23 |
| 2024 | 348 | #740 | 0.20 |
| 2023 | 319 | #791 | 0.19 |
| 2022 | 329 | #769 | 0.19 |
| 2021 | 274 | #856 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 277 | #828 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 263 | #852 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 216 | #960 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 191 | #1,050 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 179 | #1,098 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 138 | #1,293 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 147 | #1,237 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 139 | #1,257 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 140 | #1,259 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 114 | #1,444 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 101 | #1,568 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 106 | #1,549 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 74 | #1,939 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 68 | #2,042 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 52 | #2,381 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 51 | #2,307 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 39 | #2,711 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 49 | #2,214 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 35 | #2,711 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 40 | #2,446 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 29 | #3,014 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 29 | #2,892 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,107 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 47 | #1,937 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 46 | #1,936 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 38 | #2,147 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 33 | #2,362 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 37 | #2,137 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 28 | #2,558 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 25 | #2,701 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,359 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 20 | #3,020 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 25 | #2,393 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 20 | #2,665 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,456 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 27 | #2,090 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 38 | #1,589 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 25 | #2,111 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 34 | #1,713 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 39 | #1,559 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 33 | #1,744 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 49 | #1,330 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 39 | #1,490 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 44 | #1,380 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 27 | #1,848 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 18 | #2,395 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 22 | #2,017 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 29 | #1,622 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 33 | #1,481 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 21 | #2,006 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,198 | under 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,488 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Idris a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,084 Americans recorded as Idris, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls and 391 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Idris: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Idris, and how old are they?
4,970 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,084 Americans ever recorded as Idris. The median Idris alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 3,342 people named Idris (108 women and girls, 3,234 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,112 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 286 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 456 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,220 |
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 Idris born?
The states with the most babies named Idris are Texas, New York and California, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 46 | #653 | 0.6× |
| New York | 44 | #394 | 1.8× |
| California | 44 | #640 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 29 | #369 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 19 | #421 | 1.8× |
| Michigan | 18 | #468 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #591 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 16 | #898 | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 15 | #506 | 0.9× |
| Minnesota | 12 | #457 | 1.0× |
Where Idris is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Idris is most over-represented in New York: since 1914 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 Idris 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,969 babies since 1880, Idris is the most given (85% of them). In 2025 it was given to 397 of their 461 babies (86%), 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 Idris
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 Idris and names like it
- Compare Idris and IdreesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sIdris peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Idris since 1910.
- Welsh namesWiktionary’s origin for Idris: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Idris.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Idris alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.