Iah
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Iah has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 2011. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2011, with 5 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 67% girls, 33% boys all-time.
Babies named Iah, 2019
1 in 694,000
Iah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Iah over time
In 2022, Iah went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Iah?
Iah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 694,000
- 5 of 3,472,229 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 336,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 481,354 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Iah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Iahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Iah was born before 2011 — so the typical Iah is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 10
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (10).
Is Iah 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2011 (5)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Iah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Iah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Iah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.