Ibn
Ibn reached its high-water mark in 1990 at number 2,128, and has been recorded 927 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 890 Ibns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Ibn
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 927
- Estimated living today
- 890
- Median age today
- 30
- Peak year
- 1990
- Best rank
- 2,128th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1970
How old the living Ibns are
born that year still alive today
Of the 927 babies given the name since 1970, about 890 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 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.
Notable Ibns
- Ibn Battuta (1304–1368)14th century Muslim Maghrebi scholar and explorer
- Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406)historiographer and historian
- Ibn Saud (1876–1953)King of Saudi Arabia from 1932 to 1953
- Ibn Arabi (1165–1240)Sufi scholar and Sunni philosopher
- Ibn Taymiyyah (1263–1328)Islamic scholar, jurist and philosopher
- Ibn Hazm (994–1064)Andalusian Muslim polymath, historian, jurist, philosopher and theologian
- Ibn Tufayl (1110–1185)Arab Muslim polymath (c. 1105–1185)
- Ibn al-Nafis (1210–1288)Arab polymath and physician
People named Ibn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ibn is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ibn is most concentrated in New Jersey (33.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1990
The most popular boys’ names the year Ibn peaked:
Ibn elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Ibn | 45 | 5,564th |
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.
Ibn among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Ibn | — | 21 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
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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.