girls:
416 births since 1962
#5300 (7th percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1921
#3280 (28th percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1921
#5996 (23rd percentile)
The name Iran is the #5,996 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,755 recorded births since 1921. This represents the 22.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 22.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,280 (28.4% percentile) for all time with 1,339 births since 1921. For girls, it ranks #5,300 (7.2% percentile) for all time with 416 births since 1962.
Iran first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1921 (1921 for boys and 1962 for girls). Birth data for Iran is available in 82 out of the 103 years between 1921 and 2023 (82 years for boys and 30 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Iran has been given predominantly to boys, with 76.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Iran were boys.
For boys, Iran reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 4.6% percentile (ranked #645) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 21 births per million (ranked 4.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Iran ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 23.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Iran reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 4.1% percentile (ranked #860) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 21 births per million (ranked 4.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Iran".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Iran. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 32.8% confident that Iran is pronounced as ih-RAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ai-RAN, at 21.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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