Iran
About 1,775 American babies have been named Iran since 1921, most of them around 1978. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 7,194th. About 1,600 Irans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Iran boys named Iran
Girls and boys called Iran
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 416 girls and 1,359 boys in all, and in 2010 the split was 10 to 19.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 27 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,775
- Estimated living today
- 1,600
- Median age today
- 30
- Peak year
- 1978
- Best rank
- 1,570th
- Rank in 2025
- 7,194th
- First recorded
- 1921
- Girls / boys
- 416 / 1,359
How old the living Irans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,775 babies given the name since 1921, about 1,600 are alive — 91 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Irans
- Irán Eory (1939–2002)Iranian actress
- Irán Castillo (born 1977)Mexican actress, singer
- Iran Barkley (born 1960)American boxer
People named Iran with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Iran is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Iran is most concentrated in California (5.7×), Texas (3.9×), New York (0.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1978
The most popular boys’ names the year Iran peaked:
Related names
Iran against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.