Ioan
Ioan was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,181 among boys’ names; 137 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ioan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ioan mean?
Wiktionary, Welsh section
Ioan is “a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English John”
Borrowed from Late Latin Iōannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Biblical Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yōḥānān).
/ˈjɔ.an/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Welsh section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ioan?
#11,181 among boys’ names, 2025
Ioan rose from #11,214 in 2015 to #11,181 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 3.5 per million.
11 babies in 2014, the peak
Ioan peaked in 2014, when 11 boys were given it, #7,227 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,181 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,290 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,367 | 3.5 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,278 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,315 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,881 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,243 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,214 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,227 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,057 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 9 | #8,419 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,794 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,255 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,311 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,448 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,263 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,593 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,425 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ioan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 137 Americans recorded as Ioan, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ioan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ioan, and how old are they?
An estimated 131 Americans named Ioan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,908 people named Ioan (25 women and girls, 1,883 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 99 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Ioan rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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, Ioan is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 4,024 babies (<1%), again the seventh 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 Ioan
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 Ioan and names like it
- Compare Ioan and IanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sIoan peaked in 2014.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Ioan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Ioan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ioan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.