Iyan
Iyan was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,505 among boys’ names; 356 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Iyan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Iyan?
#8,505 among boys’ names, 2025
Iyan fell from #7,249 in 2015 to #8,505 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.7 to 5.3 per million.
19 babies in 2013, the peak
Iyan peaked in 2013, when 19 boys were given it, #4,862 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,505 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,134 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,673 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,616 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,290 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,430 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 19 | #5,028 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 19 | #4,993 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,856 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,891 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #7,249 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,341 | 8.9 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,862 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,106 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,286 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,831 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,925 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,547 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,809 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,184 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,325 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,930 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,567 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,936 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,651 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,658 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,731 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,243 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,850 | 2.7 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,030 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Iyan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Iyan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Iyan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Iyan, and how old are they?
An estimated 352 Americans named Iyan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 335 people named Iyan (49 women and girls, 286 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 279 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% above 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 263,141 babies since 1880, Iyan is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 4,024 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Iyan
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 Iyan and names like it
- Compare Iyan and IanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sIyan peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Iyan since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Iyan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Iyan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.