Iam
#1,677 for boys in 2025, 98 births
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 98 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 561since 1983
Iam over time
Rank among boys' names. Iam has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,677 | 98 |
| 2024 | #1,767 | 93 |
| 2023 | #1,954 | 79 |
| 2022 | #3,003 | 41 |
| 2021 | #3,912 | 27 |
| 2020 | #4,020 | 25 |
| 2019 | #4,003 | 26 |
| 2018 | #5,770 | 15 |
| 2017 | #4,466 | 22 |
| 2016 | #4,470 | 22 |
| 2015 | #5,058 | 18 |
| 2014 | #6,632 | 12 |
| 2013 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #6,001 | 14 |
| 2011 | #9,600 | 7 |
| 2010 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #7,692 | 10 |
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| 2005 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #8,143 | 8 |
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| 2002 | #10,667 | 5 |
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| 1999 | #8,704 | 6 |
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| 1987 | #6,951 | 5 |
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| 1983 | #4,907 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Iam! It came in at #4,907, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1984–1998, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Iam
- 90 spots since 2024 (#1,767 → #1,677)
- 2,343 spots since 2020 (#4,020 → #1,677)
- 3,381 spots since 2015 (#5,058 → #1,677)
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 2025 at #1,677 (98 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,429 boys born in 2025 were named Iam (0.01%)
- 64.7% of all boys named Iam (363) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 12 | #4,907 (1983) | #5,929 |
| 1990s | 6 | #8,704 (1999) | #8,704 |
| 2000s | 31 | #7,692 (2009) | #8,700 |
| 2010s | 149 | #4,003 (2019) | #6,642 |
| 2020s | 363 | #1,677 (2025) | #2,722 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Iam in 1983
Top boys' names in 1983
More about 1983
boys
1,792,564 boys got a published name in 1983; 1 in 256,081 of them was named Iam, which outranked 33.2% of the 7,344 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,499Zebulin8
- #4,499Zedrick8
- #4,499Zenaido8
- #4,907Iam7
- #4,907Aamir7
- #4,907Aaren7
- #4,907Aaric7
- #5,484Aakash6
- #5,484Aarik6
- #5,484Aarin6
Tied with 576 names at #4,907; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.