Icarus
#4,770 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Icarus has been given to 169 babies in the U.S. since 2011. In 2025 it ranked #4,770 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Icarus, 2025
1 in 158,000
Icarus 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Icarus?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 158,000
- 21 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 81,300
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,770
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 109,425 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Icarus 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Icarus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Icaruss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Icarus was born before 2021 — so the typical Icarus is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 55.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 169
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 55.6% of all recorded uses (94).
Is Icarus 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
- +534
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +4,255
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,922
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.10×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (21)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.8% average annual change
Spellings of Icarus
Icarus is not the most common spelling — Cyrus is, with 89.1% against Icarus's 0.52%.
Where Icarus is used
Across 1910–2025, Icarus was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,558,013 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 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. Icarus has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Icarus around the world
Where Icarus 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 & Wales2020–2021#3,990in 2021
- South Australia1968–1968#520in 1968
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.
Icarus by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Icarus
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Icarus
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.