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Ianto

Boys' name

God is gracious, through Ieuan

Ianto has been given to 12 babies in the U.S. since 2014. 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 2014, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Ianto, 2015

1 in 617,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ianto: meaning, origin, and history

God is gracious, through Ieuan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ianto means

Ianto belongs to the name family reached through Ianto → Ieuan. Its meaning is “God is gracious”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ianto is used in Welsh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ieuan.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Welsh, Ianto is pronounced /ˈjantɔ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12 boys were recorded with the name Ianto between 2014 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2014; its best national rank was #11,201 in 2015.

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 Ianto?

Ianto had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 617,000
6 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 319,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
427,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ianto 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 2015 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 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ianto. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Iantos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ianto was born before 2014 — so the typical Ianto is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
12
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (12).

Is Ianto 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
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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 2014 (6)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,201
2015

Spellings of Ianto

Ianto is not the most common spelling — Ian is, with 70.4% against Ianto's <0.01%.

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.

Ianto around the world

Where Ianto 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
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1980–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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

Ianto by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,201
2015
Peak year
2014
6 that year
First recorded
2014
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ianto

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

IanisIangaelBentoTrentoUntoIancarloIannJasintoKentoQuintoTorontoGiacintoMonsantoPioquintoCrisantoIanmichaelSantoSacramentoJacintoIan

Sibling names for Ianto

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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