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Ehsan

#3,533 in 2025Boys' name

Favor, kindness, beneficence

Ehsan has been given to 542 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #3,533 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Ehsan, 2025

1 in 104,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ehsan: meaning, origin, and history

Favor, kindness, beneficence

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ehsan means

Ehsan means “favor, kindness, beneficence”, associated with ehsân.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Persian احسان (ehsân, literally “favor, kindness, beneficence”), from Arabic إِحْسَان (ʔiḥsān).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Ehsan (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Ehsan is used in English.

Ehsan comes through Persian احسان and Arabic إِحْسَان.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include احسان.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 542 boys were recorded with the name Ehsan between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 36 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,289 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,665 in 2020 to #3,533 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,353 in 2015 to #3,533 in 2025.

How common is Ehsan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 53,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,533
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ehsan 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 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ehsan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ehsans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ehsan was born before 2013 — so the typical Ehsan is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
542
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.3% of all recorded uses (175).

Is Ehsan 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
−244
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,132
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,820
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.88×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
88.9%
Peak was 2024 (36)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,289
2024

Spellings of Ehsan

Ehsan is not the most common spelling — Ethan is, with 56.6% against Ehsan's 0.06%.

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 Ehsan is used

Across 1910–2025, Ehsan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 889,019 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New 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. Ehsan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ehsan around the world

Where Ehsan 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
    1996–2025
    #1,406
    in 2025
  • France
    2012–2025
    #1,660
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #1,614
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1992–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Ehsan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,533
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,132
Best rank ever
#3,289
2024
Peak year
2024
36 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
542
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Ehsan

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

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Sibling names for Ehsan

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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