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Imran

#969 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Amram

Imran has been given to 4,558 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #969 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 242 recorded.

Babies named Imran, 2025

1 in 14,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Imran: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Amram

Arabic

What Imran means

Imran is a form of Amram.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Imran → Amram. The family’s meaning is “exalted nation”, recorded in the naming reference for Amram.

Origin, language, and formation

Imran is used in English and Albanian. Its origins include Arabic.

Imran comes through Arabic عِمْرَان.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amram.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,558 boys were recorded with the name Imran between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 242 in 2023; its best national rank was #934 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,011 in 2020 to #969 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,078 in 2015 to #969 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 Imran?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,000
237 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 7,210
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#969
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,697 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Imran 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 9,697 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Imran. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Imrans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Imran was born before 2015 — so the typical Imran is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,558
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.7% of all recorded uses (1,626).

Is Imran 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
+8
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+42
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+109
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.30×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
97.9%
Peak was 2023 (242)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#934
2018

Spellings of Imran

Imran is not the most common spelling — Ian is, with 47.2% against Imran's 0.83%.

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 Imran is used

Across 2016–2025, Imran was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 769 boys, against 1 in 7,439 across all states with data. It was least common in Kentucky (1 in 50,000).

2130 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 769
  2. 2New York1 in 3,226
  3. 3Ohio1 in 4,545
  4. 4Washington1 in 4,545
  5. 5Virginia1 in 4,762
  6. 6Maryland1 in 5,882
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 7,143
  8. 8Georgia1 in 8,333

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.

Imran around the world

Where Imran 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
    #478
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1988–2025
    #577
    in 2025
  • France
    1979–2025
    #31
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #259
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #483
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1974–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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 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.

Imran by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#969
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 42
Best rank ever
#934
2018
Peak year
2023
242 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,558
Count in 2025
237

Names similar to Imran

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

KiranKyranDoranTyranAbranOranTaranQuranDuranKaranKamranLoranCiaranTerranIranKoranImronGibranKieranCurranEmranRoranJeranKeiran

Names with a curve like Imran

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

MeirJeremiasZevTzviDaniloUmarAviYahyaLazarusIdrisAlistairAvraham

Sibling names for Imran

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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