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Iwan

Boys' name

Ivan's, through Ива́н

Iwan has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 1958. 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 1958, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Iwan, 2018

1 in 703,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Iwan: meaning, origin, and history

Ivan's, through Ива́н

Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Russian and Hebrew

What Iwan means

Iwan belongs to the name family reached through Iwan → Ива́н. Its meaning is “Ivan's”.

Origin, language, and formation

Iwan is used in Polish and Welsh. Its origins include Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Russian and Hebrew.

Iwan comes through Russian Ива́н.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ivan, John, Ifan, Siôn and Ива́н.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Iwan is pronounced /ˈi.van/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15 boys were recorded with the name Iwan between 1958 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1958; its best national rank was #4,201 in 1958.

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 Iwan?

Iwan 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 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only
1 in 363,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Iwan 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 2018 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 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iwan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Iwans were born

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

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
66.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
15
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 66.7% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Iwan 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1958 (5)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,201
1958

Spellings of Iwan

Iwan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 24.5% against Iwan's <0.01%.

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 Iwan is used

Across 1910–2025, Iwan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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

Iwan around the world

Where Iwan 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
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • France
    1944–2025
    #2,247
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1951–1976
    #651
    in 1976

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

Iwan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,201
1958
Peak year
1958
5 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Iwan

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

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Sibling names for Iwan

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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