Iyad is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Eyad, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Iyad: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,311 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 Iyad in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,311 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Iyad: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 boys in 2025. Peak: #4,311 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 24 (2025).
In 2025, 24 US boys were named Iyad, making it the 4,311th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,686 places from #6,997 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 12 boys named Iyad in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,311, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 24. For comparison, it was #11,227 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Iyad in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 5 babies. In all, 257 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 103 babies named Iyad.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 124 US boys were named Iyad; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 71,170 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Eyad (1,421 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).
No nicknames listed for Iyad 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 | — | — | 24 | #4,311 |
| 2024 | — | — | 12 | #6,997 |
| 2023 | — | — | 12 | #7,066 |
| 2022 | — | — | 9 | #8,580 |
| 2021 | — | — | 9 | #8,439 |
| 2020 | — | — | 16 | #5,548 |
| 2019 | — | — | 14 | #6,222 |
| 2018 | — | — | 5 | #12,931 |
| 2017 | — | — | 11 | #7,286 |
| 2016 | — | — | 12 | #6,887 |
| 2015 | — | — | 6 | #11,227 |
| 2014 | — | — | 11 | #7,238 |
| 2013 | — | — | 15 | #5,768 |
| 2012 | — | — | 12 | #6,777 |
| 2011 | — | — | 7 | #10,042 |
| 2010 | — | — | 10 | #7,806 |
| 2009 | — | — | 9 | #8,572 |
| 2008 | — | — | 11 | #7,394 |
| 2006 | — | — | 6 | #11,190 |
| 2003 | — | — | 5 | #11,574 |
| 2000 | — | — | 5 | #11,061 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #9,291 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,652 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #7,744 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,682 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #5,945 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,198 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,416 |
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).