Iram
Iram was given to 15 boys in 2025, #5,959 among boys’ names; 1,019 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Iram by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Iram?
#5,959 among boys’ names, 2025
Iram fell from #3,264 in 2015 to #5,959 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.3 to 8.8 per million.
38 babies in 2024, the peak
Iram peaked in 2024, when 38 boys were given it, #3,181 among boys’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 15 | #5,959 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 38 | #3,181 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 25 | #4,258 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 28 | #3,928 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 23 | #4,417 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 22 | #4,467 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 33 | #3,444 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 29 | #3,738 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 20 | #4,815 | |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,248 | 25 | #4,140 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 35 | #3,264 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 27 | #3,831 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 24 | #4,110 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 22 | #4,447 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 16 | #5,513 | |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,698 | 28 | #3,748 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 30 | #3,589 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 24 | #4,182 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 26 | #3,935 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 35 | #3,108 | |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,211 | 27 | #3,558 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,116 | 21 | #4,172 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 34 | #2,871 | |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,419 | 25 | #3,487 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,286 | 30 | #3,013 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 25 | #3,352 | |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,835 | 24 | #3,306 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,595 | 24 | #3,226 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,666 | 22 | #3,288 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 15 | #4,256 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 12 | #4,906 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,225 | 7 | #7,260 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,353 | 13 | #4,544 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,070 | 12 | #4,669 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 8 | #6,158 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,785 | 12 | #4,508 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #8,384 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,334 | 5 | #7,407 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,875 | 7 | #5,566 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,279 | 8 | #4,867 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,454 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 6 | #5,790 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 7 | #5,162 | |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,772 | 5 | #6,442 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 6 | #5,342 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 7 | #4,802 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 8 | #4,167 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #5,057 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,540 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 6 | #4,455 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Iram a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,019 Americans recorded as Iram, 10% are girls and 90% boys. In 2025 it went to 15 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 Iram: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Iram, and how old are they?
An estimated 998 Americans named Iram and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 10 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,655 people named Iram (761 women and girls, 894 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 859 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.
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 Iram born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #2,727 | 3.1× |
Where Iram is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Iram is most over-represented in Texas: since 1970 it was given 3.1 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 Iram with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Iram
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 Iram and names like it
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- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Iram.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Iram alive today were born 1997-2012.
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