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Iban

Boys' name

Form of John

Iban has been given to 524 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 2002, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Iban, 2019

1 in 579,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Iban: meaning, origin, and history

Form of John

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Iban means

Iban is a form of John.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Iban is used in Basque.

Another recorded pronunciation is /i.ˈβan/ for Iban.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Iban → John. The family’s meaning is “Yahweh is gracious”, recorded in the naming reference for John.

Origin, language, and formation

Iban is used in Atayal.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include John.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 524 boys were recorded with the name Iban between 1973 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2002; its best national rank was #3,089 in 1997.

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 Iban?

Iban 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 579,000
6 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only
1 in 299,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
401,129 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Iban 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 2019 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 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iban. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ibans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Iban was born before 1998 — so the typical Iban is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
36.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
524
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 36.1% of all recorded uses (189).

Is Iban 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2002 (29)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,089
1997

Spellings of Iban

Iban is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 26.0% against Iban'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.

Where Iban is used

Across 1910–2025, Iban was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 171,487 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 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. Iban has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Iban around the world

Where Iban 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.

  • France
    1971–2025
    #1,712
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Iban 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
#3,089
1997
Peak year
2002
29 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
524
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Iban

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

LibanAlbanKorbanEbanSabanLabanUrbanIbaadAabanCorbanAbanIbadEstabanObanJobanOrbanCubanBobanStebanShubanRubanDubanQubanShaban

Sibling names for Iban

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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