Iain
Iain is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 25 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 250.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2003126 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1953
- 2,899people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,899 boys have been named Iain in the United States since 1953, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2003, with 126 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 35%.
By decade
In 2003, its biggest year
Iain was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2003 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Andrew. See all of 2003.
Names that rose and fell with Iain
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Osvaldopeak 2004
- Isaccpeak 2003
- Dalenpeak 2001
- Maximillianpeak 1999
- Trentonpeak 2007
- Gianfrancopeak 2002
- Alexandropeak 2004
- Devlinpeak 2007
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.