Ihan is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Ian, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Ihan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,471 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Ihan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,471 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Ihan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,471 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 33 (2025).
In 2025, 33 US boys were named Ihan, making it the 3,471st most common boys’ name of the year, up 82 places from #3,553 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 32 boys named Ihan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,471, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 33. For comparison, it was #9,058 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ihan in 16 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2008 with 7 babies. In all, 219 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 128 babies named Ihan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 172 US boys were named Ihan; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 33. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,760 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ian (258,479 babies since 1880), Ean (6,562 babies since 1880), Iain (2,911 babies since 1880) and Eian (2,095 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 Ihan 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.
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).