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Idris

#694 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Idris has been given to 5,084 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #694 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 391 recorded.

Babies named Idris, 2025

1 in 8,480

Idris over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Idris: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Welsh and Arabic

What Idris means

Idris has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: “lord”.

Origin, language, and formation

Idris is used in English, Malay, Tausug and Welsh. Its origins include Welsh and Arabic.

Idris comes through Welsh Idris.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Idris.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Malay, Idris is pronounced [i.dres].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,031 boys were recorded with the name Idris between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 391 in 2025; its best national rank was #694 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #828 in 2020 to #694 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,293 in 2015 to #694 in 2025.

In the United States, 53 girls were recorded with the name Idris between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1920; its best national rank was #4,163 in 1920.

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 Idris?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 8,480
391 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 4,370
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#694
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,878 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Idris 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 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,878 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Idris. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Idriss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Idris was born before 2017 — so the typical Idris is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
38.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,026
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 38.5% of all recorded uses (1,938).

Is Idris 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
+46
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+134
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+599
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (391)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#694
2025

Spellings of Idris

Idris is not the most common spelling — Chris is, with 69.2% against Idris's 2.4%.

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 Idris is used

Across 2016–2025, Idris was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 2,857 boys, against 1 in 5,690 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 50,000).

235 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 2,857
  2. 2New York1 in 2,857
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 2,941
  4. 4Maryland1 in 3,125
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 3,226
  6. 6Michigan1 in 4,545
  7. 7Washington1 in 4,545
  8. 8Virginia1 in 4,762

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.

Geographically, Idris is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 78% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Idris around the world

Where Idris 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
    #142
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2025
    #278
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2014–2014
    #398
    in 2014
  • Ireland
    2006–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    1946–2025
    #325
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #199
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #293
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1968–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Idris

People whose public names include Idris, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Idris in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Idris. Linked forms have their own page here.

Idriss

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Idris by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#694
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 134
Best rank ever
#694
2025
Peak year
2025
391 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,031
Count in 2025
391

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,849
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,163
1920
Peak year
1920
7 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
53
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Idris

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

BorisFarisParisHarisOsirisCrisFarrisFerrisArisDarisIdreesDarrisDorisParrisKrisNorrisHarrisTyrisTavarisEdrisJavarisSyrisIrisCyris

Names with a curve like Idris

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Idris, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AriesMusaZaydGatlinZahirYahyaMeirJeremiasZevOsirisZamirEliel

Sibling names for Idris

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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