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Idan

#3,691 in 2025Boys' name

Era

Idan has been given to 575 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #3,691 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Idan, 2025

1 in 111,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Idan: meaning, origin, and history

Era

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Idan means

Idan means “era”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 575 boys were recorded with the name Idan between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 36 in 2009; its best national rank was #3,185 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,762 in 2020 to #3,691 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,729 in 2015 to #3,691 in 2025.

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.

How common is Idan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 56,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,691
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Idan 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 2025 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Idan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Idans were born

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

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
575
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.5% of all recorded uses (256).

Is Idan 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
+427
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,071
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+38
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.03×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
83.3%
Peak was 2009 (36)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,185
2009

Spellings of Idan

Idan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 20.1% against Idan'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 Idan is used

Across 1910–2025, Idan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 236,667 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. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Idan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Idan around the world

Where Idan 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
    2010–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • France
    1990–2025
    #2,860
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2014
    #2,134
    in 2014

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Idan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,691
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,071
Best rank ever
#3,185
2009
Peak year
2009
36 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
575
Count in 2025
30

Names similar to Idan

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

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Sibling names for Idan

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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