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Ean

#1,797 in 2025Boys' name

Form of John

Ean has been given to 6,562 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #1,797 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 289 recorded.

Babies named Ean, 2025

1 in 37,200

Ean over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ean: meaning, origin, and history

Form of John

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ean means

Ean is a form of John.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ean → John. The family’s meaning is “Yahweh is gracious”, recorded in the naming reference for John.

Origin, language, and formation

Ean is used in Manx.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include John.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,562 boys were recorded with the name Ean between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 289 in 2007; its best national rank was #760 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,391 in 2020 to #1,797 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #979 in 2015 to #1,797 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ean?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 37,200
89 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 19,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,797
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
25,820 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ean sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 25,820 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ean. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ean was born before 2008 — so the typical Ean is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,562
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 33.4% of all recorded uses (2,191).

Is Ean rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−424
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−406
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−818
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.8%
Peak was 2007 (289)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#760
2007

Where Ean is used

Across 2016–2025, Ean was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 4,348 boys, against 1 in 11,905 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).

123 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 4,348
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 5,556
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 7,143
  4. 4Florida1 in 9,091
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 10,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 11,111
  7. 7Texas1 in 12,500
  8. 8California1 in 14,286

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Ean around the world

Where Ean ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2019–2021
    #3,990
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2007–2023
    #2,931
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1945–1991
    #481
    in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Ean

People whose public names include Ean, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ean by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,797
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 406
Best rank ever
#760
2007
Peak year
2007
289 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,562
Count in 2025
89

Names similar to Ean

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Ean

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ean, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Ean

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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