# Ioan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ioan/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 137 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 132 / 5 (4% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,326, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1917 | 5 | 4,918 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | 11,454 |
| 2008 | 8 | 9,318 |
| 2009 | 7 | 10,260 |
| 2010 | 10 | 7,800 |
| 2012 | 9 | 8,425 |
| 2013 | 7 | 10,062 |
| 2014 | 11 | 7,232 |
| 2015 | 6 | 11,220 |
| 2016 | 6 | 11,248 |
| 2019 | 5 | 12,887 |
| 2020 | 9 | 8,320 |
| 2021 | 6 | 11,284 |
| 2023 | 6 | 11,372 |
| 2024 | 7 | 10,295 |
| 2025 | 6 | 11,185 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 94 | 420 |
| 2012 | 91 | 434 |
| 2013 | 80 | 479 |
| 2014 | 84 | 471 |
| 2015 | 106 | 399 |
| 2016 | 88 | 459 |
| 2017 | 90 | 460 |
| 2018 | 99 | 425 |
| 2019 | 73 | 523 |
| 2020 | 58 | 611 |
| 2021 | 69 | 556 |
| 2022 | 79 | 492 |
| 2023 | 57 | 625 |
| 2024 | 62 | 613 |
| 2025 | 31 | 976 |

## People named Ioan

- Ioan James, British mathematician
- Ioan Pop, fencer
- Ioan Holender, Austrian opera administrator
- Ioan Lemeni, Bishop of Făgăraş-Alba Iulia
- Joannes Meyssens, Flemish Baroque painter, engraver, and printer (1612-1670)

## 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.