Iridian
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Iridian has been given to 588 babies in the U.S. since 1994. 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 1995, with 214 recorded.
Babies named Iridian, 2006
1 in 659,000
Iridian 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Iridian?
Iridian had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2006
- 1 in 659,000
- 6 of 3,956,166 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 317,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2006
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 457,035 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Iridian sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 457,035 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iridian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Iridians were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Iridian was born before 1996 — so the typical Iridian is around 29 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 84.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 581
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 84.0% of all recorded uses (488).
Is Iridian 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 1995 (214)
- Years since peak
- 30
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 182.3% average annual change
Spellings of Iridian
Iridian is not the most common spelling — Viridiana is, with 79.3% against Iridian's 10.8%.
Where Iridian is used
Across 1910–2025, Iridian was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 117,056 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Arizona1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in 100,000
- 3Colorado1 in 100,000
- 4New Mexico1 in 100,000
- 5Texas1 in 100,000
- 6Florida1 in —
- 7Illinois1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Iridian has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Iridian by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Iridian
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Iridian
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.