Irfaan
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Irfaan has been given to 19 babies in the U.S. since 2001. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2017, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Irfaan, 2018
1 in 502,000
Irfaan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Irfaan?
Irfaan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2018
- 1 in 502,000
- 7 of 3,516,853 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 259,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 348,244 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Irfaan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 348,244 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Irfaan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Irfaans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Irfaan was born before 2017 — so the typical Irfaan is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 73.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 19
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 73.7% of all recorded uses (14).
Is Irfaan 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2017 (7)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Irfaan
Irfaan is not the most common spelling — Ishaan is, with 34.7% against Irfaan's 0.12%.
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.
Irfaan around the world
Where Irfaan 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 & Wales1997–2017#4,812in 2017
- France1991–2019#5,846in 2019
- Canada1994–1994#1,715in 1994
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.
Irfaan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Irfaan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Irfaan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.