Ian
Recorded for both sexesGen Z2025 rank
#83
down −8 places
2025 births
3,924
down −636 births
All-time births
257,664
2% of them in 2025
More common than
100%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2005
- 6,688 births
- Best rank
- #65
- in 2003
- First recorded
- 1912
- #2,409 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 2000
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 114 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 20056,688#68Peak
- 20046,507#69
- 20036,466#65
- 20026,360#67
- 20076,250#75
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #65 in 2003 · peak births 6,688 in 2005
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 100% boys■ 0% girls
257,664 boys · 815 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Ian has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.