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Ean

About 6,562 American babies have been named Ean since 1968, most of them around 2007. In 2025 it ranked 1,793rd. About 6,400 Eans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Ean

By the numbers

Total US births
6,562
Estimated living today
6,400
Median age today
17
Peak year
2007
Best rank
759th
Rank in 2025
1,793rd
First recorded
1968

How old the living Eans are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 6,562 babies given the name since 1968, about 6,400 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 3,400 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 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.

Where the name comes from

Origin Manx

From gv Ean, an equivalent of John.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Ean is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Ean is most concentrated in Florida (2.1×), Texas (1.7×), California (1.4×), New York (1.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2007

The most popular boys’ names the year Ean peaked:

All the names of 2007

Ean elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Switzerland boys Ean 42 992nd
England and Wales boys Ean 7 3,990th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Ean: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Ean 34 0.003% 795th
French boys Switzerland Ean 1 0.000% 864th
Italian boys Switzerland Ean 7 0.011% 130th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

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.