# Ehsan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ehsan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | “favor”, “kindness”, “beneficence” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 542 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 542 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 714, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Persian احسان (ehsân, literally “favor, kindness, beneficence”), from Arabic إِحْسَان (ʔiḥsān).

## What it means

Ehsan is grouped under grace.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 16 | 5,495 |
| 2012 | 18 | 5,096 |
| 2013 | 21 | 4,509 |
| 2014 | 18 | 5,114 |
| 2015 | 17 | 5,357 |
| 2016 | 18 | 5,187 |
| 2017 | 17 | 5,350 |
| 2018 | 19 | 4,980 |
| 2019 | 17 | 5,399 |
| 2020 | 10 | 7,670 |
| 2021 | 24 | 4,279 |
| 2022 | 18 | 5,268 |
| 2023 | 28 | 3,920 |
| 2024 | 36 | 3,291 |
| 2025 | 32 | 3,534 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 3 | 5,591 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 36 | 831 |
| 2012 | 37 | 837 |
| 2013 | 39 | 788 |
| 2014 | 30 | 959 |
| 2015 | 27 | 1,046 |
| 2016 | 25 | 1,123 |
| 2017 | 14 | 1,703 |
| 2018 | 17 | 1,455 |
| 2019 | 18 | 1,369 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,334 |
| 2021 | 16 | 1,516 |
| 2022 | 17 | 1,469 |
| 2023 | 10 | 2,160 |
| 2024 | 18 | 1,460 |
| 2025 | 19 | 1,406 |

## People named Ehsan

- Ehsan Jami, Dutch politician
- Ehsan Adil, cricketer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.