Meaning and history
Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Iain, from Latin Iohannes (see John). It became popular in the United Kingdom outside Scotland in the first half of the 20th century, but did not catch on in America until the 1960s.
20062006: 6,154 births, rank #80
2007: 6,250 births, rank #75
2008: 5,723 births, rank #80
2009: 5,807 births, rank #73
2010: 5,563 births, rank #72
20112011: 5,620 births, rank #72
2012: 5,696 births, rank #78
2013: 5,434 births, rank #80
2014: 5,461 births, rank #77
2015: 5,332 births, rank #76
20162016: 5,079 births, rank #78
2017: 5,033 births, rank #76
2018: 4,706 births, rank #79
2019: 4,551 births, rank #81
2020: 4,267 births, rank #83
20212021: 4,302 births, rank #81
2022: 4,505 births, rank #72
2023: 4,555 births, rank #69
2024: 4,560 births, rank #74
20252025: 3,924 births, rank #83
Ian moved from #75 to #83 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2005, with 6,688 births.