Iam
#1,681 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Iam has been given to 561 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #1,681 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 98 recorded.
Babies named Iam, 2025
1 in 33,800
Iam 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Iam?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 33,800
- 98 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 17,400
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,681
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 23,449 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Iam sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 23,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Iams were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Iam was born before 2022 — so the typical Iam is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 64.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 561
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 64.7% of all recorded uses (363).
Is Iam 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
- +88
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,377
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,464
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 5.44×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (98)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.3% average annual change
Where Iam is used
Across 1910–2025, Iam was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 359,233 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Georgia1 in —
- 4North Carolina1 in —
- 5New Jersey1 in —
- 6New York1 in —
- 7Texas1 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. Iam has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Iam by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Iam
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Iam
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.