Meaning not yet researched.
Ean: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 89 in 2025. Its best rank was #760 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #760 in 2007; #1,797 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ean in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,797 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #760.
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Ean: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 89 boys in 2025. Peak: #760 in 2007 · most boys in one year: 289 (2007).
In 2025, 89 US boys were named Ean, making it the 1,797th most common boys’ name of the year, down 424 places from #1,373 in 2024. That is 48 fewer than the 137 boys named Ean in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #760, reached in 2007. That year also had the most boys given the name: 289. For comparison, it was #979 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ean in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 6 babies. In all, 6,562 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,191 babies named Ean.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,493 US boys were named Ean; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 194. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,192 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ean ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #949 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ian (258,479 babies since 1880), Iain (2,911 babies since 1880), Eian (2,095 babies since 1880) and Eoin (1,604 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ehaan, Eyon and Eyen are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ehaan (115), Eyon (54), Eyen (7), Euin (6), Eeyan (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ean in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 6 | #949 | #1,006 |
| New York | 10 | #1,149 | #595 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,285 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,514 | #923 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,585 | #886 |
| California | 10 | #1,619 | #1,132 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 89 | #1,797 |
| 2024 | — | — | 137 | #1,373 |
| 2023 | — | — | 147 | #1,300 |
| 2022 | — | — | 126 | #1,441 |
| 2021 | — | — | 139 | #1,334 |
| 2020 | — | — | 125 | #1,391 |
| 2019 | — | — | 181 | #1,098 |
| 2018 | — | — | 177 | #1,107 |
| 2017 | — | — | 178 | #1,095 |
| 2016 | — | — | 194 | #1,030 |
| 2015 | — | — | 211 | #979 |
| 2014 | — | — | 208 | #994 |
| 2013 | — | — | 251 | #852 |
| 2012 | — | — | 242 | #876 |
| 2011 | — | — | 272 | #807 |
| 2010 | — | — | 264 | #811 |
| 2009 | — | — | 275 | #809 |
| 2008 | — | — | 247 | #861 |
| 2007 | — | — | 289 | #760 |
| 2006 | — | — | 267 | #776 |
| 2005 | — | — | 220 | #841 |
| 2004 | — | — | 220 | #817 |
| 2003 | — | — | 216 | #805 |
| 2002 | — | — | 157 | #996 |
| 2001 | — | — | 145 | #1,020 |
| 2000 | — | — | 155 | #970 |
| 1999 | — | — | 154 | #945 |
| 1998 | — | — | 130 | #1,040 |
| 1997 | — | — | 78 | #1,404 |
| 1996 | — | — | 88 | #1,258 |
| 1995 | — | — | 75 | #1,361 |
| 1994 | — | — | 83 | #1,283 |
| 1993 | — | — | 69 | #1,400 |
| 1992 | — | — | 57 | #1,553 |
| 1991 | — | — | 52 | #1,618 |
| 1990 | — | — | 48 | #1,689 |
| 1989 | — | — | 61 | #1,401 |
| 1988 | — | — | 37 | #1,826 |
| 1987 | — | — | 46 | #1,545 |
| 1986 | — | — | 41 | #1,600 |
| 1985 | — | — | 46 | #1,455 |
| 1984 | — | — | 32 | #1,772 |
| 1983 | — | — | 31 | #1,792 |
| 1982 | — | — | 43 | #1,468 |
| 1981 | — | — | 24 | #2,151 |
| 1980 | — | — | 36 | #1,632 |
| 1979 | — | — | 25 | #2,063 |
| 1978 | — | — | 28 | #1,843 |
| 1977 | — | — | 22 | #2,144 |
| 1976 | — | — | 23 | #2,068 |
| 1975 | — | — | 16 | #2,562 |
| 1974 | — | — | 17 | #2,384 |
| 1973 | — | — | 14 | #2,635 |
| 1972 | — | — | 17 | #2,268 |
| 1971 | — | — | 12 | #2,860 |
| 1970 | — | — | 14 | #2,541 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,580 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,824 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).