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Ike

#2,460 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly he laughs, he will laugh, through Isaac

Ike has been given to 7,342 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,460 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1953, with 111 recorded.

Babies named Ike, 2025

1 in 60,300

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ike: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly he laughs, he will laugh, through Isaac

Cebuano

What Ike means

Ike belongs to the name family reached through Ike → Isaac. Its meaning is “he laughs, he will laugh”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ike is used in English, Cebuano and Tagalog. Its origins include Cebuano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Isaac, Francisco, Francis, Iko, Enrique and Quique.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Ike is pronounced /aɪk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,342 boys were recorded with the name Ike between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 111 in 1953; its best national rank was #184 in 1884.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,009 in 2020 to #2,460 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,659 in 2015 to #2,460 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ike?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 60,300
55 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 31,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,460
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,781 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ike 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 41,781 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ike. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ikes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ike was born before 1948 — so the typical Ike is around 77 today.

Median birth year
1948
About 77 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
9.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,566
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1950s — 9.8% of all recorded uses (721).

Is Ike 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
+513
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−451
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−801
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.58×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
49.5%
Peak was 1953 (111)
Years since peak
72
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#184
1884

Where Ike is used

Across 1910–2025, Ike was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 5,882 boys, against 1 in 58,892 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

017 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 5,882
  2. 2Alabama1 in 11,111
  3. 3Georgia1 in 16,667
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 16,667
  5. 5Texas1 in 33,333
  6. 6Utah1 in 33,333
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 50,000
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 50,000

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. Ike has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ike around the world

Where Ike 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
    1996–2023
    #3,113
    in 2023
  • France
    1985–1985
    #2,578
    in 1985
  • South Australia
    1999–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ike by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,460
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 451
Best rank ever
#184
1884
Peak year
1953
111 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,342
Count in 2025
55

Names similar to Ike

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

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Names with a curve like Ike

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

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Sibling names for Ike

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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