Ihsan is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Izan, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Ihsan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,903 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 83% of babies named Ihsan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,903 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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.
Ihsan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,903 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 43 (2025).
In 2025, 43 US boys were named Ihsan, making it the 2,903rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 931 places from #3,834 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 29 boys named Ihsan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,903, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 43. For comparison, it was #3,620 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Ihsan, making it the 10,416th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #10,416, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 9. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ihsan in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 10 babies. In all, 704 US babies have been given the name, 7.0% of them girls and 93% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 260 babies named Ihsan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 281 US boys were named Ihsan; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 43. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ihsan ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #1,145 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Izan (2,001 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 Ihsan 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 7 | #1,145 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,416 | 43 | #2,903 |
| 2024 | — | — | 29 | #3,834 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,099 | 37 | #3,248 |
| 2022 | — | — | 28 | #3,930 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,598 | 19 | #4,997 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,042 | 25 | #4,063 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,775 | 15 | #5,927 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,983 | 26 | #4,036 |
| 2017 | — | — | 30 | #3,620 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,047 | 29 | #3,720 |
| 2015 | — | — | 30 | #3,620 |
| 2014 | — | — | 28 | #3,724 |
| 2013 | — | — | 20 | #4,695 |
| 2012 | — | — | 32 | #3,407 |
| 2011 | — | — | 14 | #6,057 |
| 2010 | — | — | 15 | #5,843 |
| 2009 | — | — | 26 | #3,961 |
| 2008 | — | — | 19 | #4,963 |
| 2007 | — | — | 17 | #5,287 |
| 2006 | — | — | 17 | #5,167 |
| 2005 | — | — | 16 | #5,124 |
| 2004 | — | — | 10 | #7,188 |
| 2003 | — | — | 12 | #6,010 |
| 2002 | — | — | 8 | #7,932 |
| 2001 | — | — | 9 | #7,133 |
| 2000 | — | — | 8 | #7,729 |
| 1999 | — | — | 11 | #5,792 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #9,841 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,194 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #8,947 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,640 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,149 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #7,142 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #5,870 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,674 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,441 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,738 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,345 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,616 |
| 1974 | — | — | 10 | #3,420 |
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).