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Iyad

#4,310 in 2025Boys' name

Strength, support

Iyad has been given to 257 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #4,310 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Iyad, 2025

1 in 138,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Iyad: meaning, origin, and history

Strength, support

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Iyad means

Iyad means “strength, support”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 257 boys were recorded with the name Iyad between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2025; its best national rank was #4,310 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,544 in 2020 to #4,310 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,221 in 2015 to #4,310 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.

How common is Iyad?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 71,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,310
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Iyad 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iyad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Iyads were born

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

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
257
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.1% of all recorded uses (103).

Is Iyad 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
+2,682
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,234
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,911
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (24)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,310
2025

Spellings of Iyad

Iyad is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 52.1% against Iyad'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 Iyad is used

Across 1910–2025, Iyad was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Iyad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Iyad around the world

Where Iyad 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
    2007–2025
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • France
    1993–2025
    #215
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #1,037
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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.

Iyad by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,310
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,234
Best rank ever
#4,310
2025
Peak year
2025
24 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
257
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Iyad

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

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Sibling names for Iyad

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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