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Ehab

#7,818 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Ihab

Ehab has been given to 470 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #7,818 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Ehab, 2025

1 in 332,000

Ehab 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ehab: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Ihab

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ehab means

Ehab is a alternate transcription of Ihab.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ihab.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 470 boys were recorded with the name Ehab between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1993; its best national rank was #3,537 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,849 in 2020 to #7,818 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,590 in 2015 to #7,818 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.

How common is Ehab?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,818
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ehab 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ehab. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ehabs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ehab was born before 2001 — so the typical Ehab is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
25.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
470
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 25.7% of all recorded uses (121).

Is Ehab 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
+96
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,031
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,772
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.6%
Peak was 1993 (18)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,537
1993

Spellings of Ehab

Ehab is not the most common spelling — Ethan is, with 43.6% against Ehab's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ehab is used

Across 1910–2025, Ehab was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

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. Ehab has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ehab around the world

Where Ehab 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
    1997–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    2000–2025
    #4,527
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2011
    #2,366
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1987–2002
    #606
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ehab by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,818
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,031
Best rank ever
#3,537
1993
Peak year
1993
18 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
470
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Ehab

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

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Sibling names for Ehab

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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