Idris
About 5,084 American babies have been named Idris since 1914, most of them around 2025. In 2025 it ranked 694th. About 5,000 Idrises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Idris boys named Idris
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,084
- Estimated living today
- 5,000
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 694th
- Rank in 2025
- 694th
- First recorded
- 1914
- Girls / boys
- 53 / 5,031
How old the living Idrises are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,084 babies given the name since 1914, about 5,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 3,700 of them are children and 4 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 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 Welsh
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Idriss
- Idris Elba (born 1972)British actor
- Idris I of Libya (1889–1983)King of Libya from 1951 to 1969
- Idris Ibn Abdallah (745–791)Idrisid ruler (r. 788–791)
- Idris II (791–828)Idrisid ruler from 803 to 828
- Idris al-Ma'mun (1186–1232)Almohad Caliph from 1229 to 1232
- Idris Bitlisi (1452–1520)Ottomon civil servant
- Idris II (died 1269)Almohad caliph from 1266 to 1269
People named Idris with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Idris is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Idris is most concentrated in New Jersey (2.8×), New York (2.2×), Maryland (1.9×), Minnesota (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Idris peaked:
Idris elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Idris | 4,178 | 142nd |
| France boys | Idris +1 spelling | 4,145 | 325th |
| Belgium boys | Idris | 781 | 134th |
| Norway boys | Idris | 261 | 193rd |
| Switzerland boys | Idris | 210 | 329th |
| Scotland boys | Idris | 92 | 278th |
| Poland boys | Idris | 33 birth registrations | 421st |
| Ireland boys | Idris | 23 | 646th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Idris | 3 | 398th |
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.
Idris: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Idris | 135 | 0.011% | 337th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Idris | 72 | 0.017% | 256th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Idris | 3 | 0.005% | 203rd |
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.
By canton, Idris is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.02% of children were given it – 32 of them.
Idris: rank by region
In 2025, Idris was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Idris | 83 | 66 |
| Wallonia | Idris | 298 | 9 |
| Brussels | Idris | 265 | 5 |
In 2025, Idris was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Małopolskie | Idris | 234 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Idris appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (34th), Province of Antwerp (79th), Province of East Flanders (86th), Province of West Flanders (109th), Province of Flemish Brabant (132nd) and Brussels-Capital Region (265th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Idris by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 64 | 226th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Idris 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 | Idris | 97 | 151 |
| Finland girls | Idris | — | 16 |
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.
Where Idris lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 329 men called Idris were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceuta | Idris | 6 | 0.142 | 575 |
| Araba/Álava | Idris | 6 | 0.036 | 1,465 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Idris | 29 | 0.029 | 2,031 |
| Girona | Idris | 12 | 0.029 | 1,868 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Idris | 9 | 0.029 | 1,811 |
| Almería | Idris | 10 | 0.025 | 2,033 |
Listed in 21 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 31 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Idris against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.