Idan is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Eden, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Idan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,186 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,186 in 2009; #3,692 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Idan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,692 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #3,186.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Idan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,186 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 36 (2009).
In 2025, 30 US boys were named Idan, making it the 3,692nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 429 places from #4,121 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 26 boys named Idan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,186, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 36. For comparison, it was #3,730 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Idan in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 5 babies. In all, 575 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 256 babies named Idan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 233 US boys were named Idan; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 56,936 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Eden (63,400 babies since 1880), Eiden (2,129 babies since 1880), Edan (1,713 babies since 1880) and Edin (1,385 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Idan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 30 | #3,692 |
| 2024 | — | — | 26 | #4,121 |
| 2023 | — | — | 25 | #4,261 |
| 2022 | — | — | 19 | #5,104 |
| 2021 | — | — | 28 | #3,852 |
| 2020 | — | — | 20 | #4,766 |
| 2019 | — | — | 17 | #5,417 |
| 2018 | — | — | 25 | #4,138 |
| 2017 | — | — | 21 | #4,651 |
| 2016 | — | — | 22 | #4,521 |
| 2015 | — | — | 29 | #3,730 |
| 2014 | — | — | 30 | #3,563 |
| 2013 | — | — | 32 | #3,363 |
| 2012 | — | — | 24 | #4,182 |
| 2011 | — | — | 26 | #3,930 |
| 2010 | — | — | 30 | #3,570 |
| 2009 | — | — | 36 | #3,186 |
| 2008 | — | — | 12 | #6,911 |
| 2007 | — | — | 21 | #4,551 |
| 2006 | — | — | 22 | #4,285 |
| 2005 | — | — | 16 | #5,121 |
| 2004 | — | — | 12 | #6,279 |
| 2003 | — | — | 11 | #6,423 |
| 2002 | — | — | 8 | #7,930 |
| 1997 | — | — | 9 | #6,285 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,440 |
| 1994 | — | — | 6 | #8,154 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #8,027 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,672 |
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).