Ihsan — #3804 US boys' name
612 babies named Ihsan in U.S. Social Security records since 1974, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 73% of names given to boys today.
39% of everyone ever named Ihsan was born in this single decade.
37 babies were named Ihsan in 2023 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Ihsan
The Social Security Administration has registered 612 babies named Ihsan between 1974 and 2024, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ihsan currently holds the #3804 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 37 babies received it in a single year. Ihsan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 40 additional births since 2016.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Ihsan performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 239 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Ihsan shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 29 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Ihsan in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Ihsan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 612 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Ihsan at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
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Ihsan popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1974
- Peak year (2023)
- 37
- Annual births at peak — across 51 years of records
Currently ranks #3804 among boys.
612 total births across 51 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2023 with 37 births in a single year.
Ihsan popularity over time — girls
40 total births recorded since 2016 (Ihsan as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Ihsan accounts for 6% of total recorded use across both genders.
Ihsan by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 239 births that decade — 39% of Ihsan's all-time total
Ihsan decade highlights
- Peak decade 239 births
- Runner-up 142 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Ihsan's strongest decade
239 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 39% of all-time use.
Ihsan by state
Where Ihsan concentrates geographically — total births since 1974
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 29 | 4.7% |
| #2 | Illinois | | 10 | 1.6% |
| #3 | Pennsylvania | | 5 | 0.8% |
| #4 | Washington | | 5 | 0.8% |
29 of 612 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 4.7% of nationwide
- Illinois 1.6% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 0.8% of nationwide
- Washington 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 4.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1974–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.