Imran
Imran was given to 237 boys in 2025, #969 among boys’ names; 4,558 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,470 Americans named Imran and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Imran by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Imran mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Imran is “a male given name from Arabic.”
From Arabic عِمْرَان (ʕimrān).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Imran?
#969 among boys’ names, 2025
Imran rose from #1,078 in 2015 to #969 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.10 to 0.14 per 1,000.
242 babies in 2023, the peak
Imran peaked in 2023, when 242 boys were given it, #935 among boys’ names. The 237 births of 2025 are 98% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 237 | #969 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 231 | #977 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 242 | #935 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 223 | #999 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 207 | #1,040 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 206 | #1,011 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 169 | #1,153 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 225 | #934 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 189 | #1,056 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 191 | #1,038 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 183 | #1,078 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 170 | #1,128 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 161 | #1,129 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 133 | #1,300 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 132 | #1,298 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 73 | #1,930 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 100 | #1,596 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,108 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,004 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,212 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,062 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 51 | #2,257 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 46 | #2,323 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,100 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,033 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 40 | #2,394 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 40 | #2,278 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 38 | #2,323 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,033 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 60 | #1,621 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 42 | #1,995 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 44 | #1,902 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 54 | #1,641 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 53 | #1,644 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 47 | #1,724 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 38 | #1,983 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 46 | #1,688 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 55 | #1,407 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 49 | #1,471 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 43 | #1,547 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 37 | #1,683 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 40 | #1,541 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 34 | #1,697 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 35 | #1,684 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 24 | #2,157 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 33 | #1,745 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 23 | #2,190 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 25 | #1,989 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 18 | #2,496 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 14 | #2,875 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 14 | #2,811 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,864 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,919 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,283 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,229 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,644 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Imran a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Imran has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Imran: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Imran, and how old are they?
4,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,558 Americans ever recorded as Imran. The median Imran alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 6,017 people named Imran (57 women and girls, 5,960 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,208 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 155 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 667 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,620 |
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 Imran born?
The states with the most babies named Imran are Minnesota, New York and California, with 48% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 36 | #182 | 5.3× |
| New York | 32 | #509 | 2.3× |
| California | 21 | #1,022 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #683 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 12 | #726 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 11 | #616 | 1.4× |
| Virginia | 10 | #699 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 9 | #1,810 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 9 | #895 | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 9 | #533 | 0.9× |
Where Imran is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Imran is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1970 it was given 5.3 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 Imran 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 5,005 babies since 1880, Imran is the most given (91% of them). In 2025 it was given to 237 of their 270 babies (88%), 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 Imran
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 Imran and names like it
- Compare Imran and ImraanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sImran peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Imran since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Imran: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Imran.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Imran alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.