Ibn
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ibn has been given to 927 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 1990, with 34 recorded.
Babies named Ibn, 2024
1 in 371,000
Ibn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ibn?
Ibn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 371,000
- 9 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 191,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 257,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ibn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ibn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ibns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ibn was born before 1994 — so the typical Ibn is around 31 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 23.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 38.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 927
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 23.3% of all recorded uses (216).
Is Ibn 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 1990 (34)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.4% average annual change
Where Ibn is used
Across 1910–2025, Ibn was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 99,186 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 in 11,111
- 2California1 in —
- 3New York1 in —
- 4Pennsylvania1 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. Ibn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ibn around the world
Where Ibn 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.
- France2013–2025#5,564in 2025
- South Australia2000–2000#556in 2000
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ibn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Sibling names for Ibn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.