Irfan

Popularity, 1880–2025

boys named Irfan

By the numbers

Total US births

696

Estimated living today

680

Median age today

18

Peak year

2025

Best rank

3,757th

Rank in 2025

3,757th

First recorded

1969

How old the living Irfans are

born that year still alive today

Of the 696 babies given the name since 1969, about 680 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 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 Arabic

Borrowed from Arabic عِرْفَان (“knowledge”). This given name is mostly found in Pakistan.

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

Notable Irfans

• Irfan Bachdim (born 1988)Indonesian association football player
• İrfan Kahveci (born 1995)Turkish association football player
• Irfan Smajlagić (born 1961)Croatian handball player
• Irfan Habib (born 1931)Indian Marxist historian
• Irfan Pathan (born 1984)Indian cricketer
• Irfan Kolothum Thodi (born 1990)Indian Olympian racewalker
• Irfan Fandi (born 1997)Singaporean footballer
• İrfan Değirmenci (born 1977)Turkish journalist

People named Irfan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Irfan is most common

• NY81
• CA5
• VA5

Relative to how many babies each state records, Irfan is most concentrated in New York (11.4×).

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

Names of 2025

The most popular boys’ names the year Irfan peaked:

• Liam
• Noah
• Oliver
• Theodore
• Henry
• James

All the names of 2025

Irfan elsewhere

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.

Irfan by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Irfan 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.

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 Irfan lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 423 men called Irfan 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

Listed in 13 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 39 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.