Idris
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #694 for boys in 2025, 391 births
Given to boys 99.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 391 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,031since 1914
Idris over time
Rank among boys' names. Idris has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #694 | 391 |
| 2024 | — | #740 | 348 | |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | #790 | 319 |
| 2022 | — | #768 | 329 | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #855 | 274 |
| 2020 | — | #828 | 277 | |
| 2019 | — | #851 | 263 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #958 | 216 |
| 2017 | — | #1,049 | 191 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,096 | 179 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,287 | 138 | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #1,237 | 147 |
| 2013 | — | #1,255 | 139 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,258 | 140 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,440 | 114 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,565 | 101 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,546 | 106 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,932 | 74 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,034 | 68 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,375 | 52 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,297 | 51 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,697 | 39 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,206 | 49 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,685 | 35 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,429 | 40 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,993 | 29 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,865 | 29 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,094 | 44 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,933 | 47 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,933 | 46 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,140 | 38 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,347 | 33 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,123 | 37 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,532 | 28 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,683 | 25 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,309 | 18 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,989 | 20 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,367 | 25 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,641 | 20 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,429 | 22 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,071 | 27 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,581 | 38 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,085 | 25 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,700 | 34 | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #1,548 | 39 |
| 1980 | — | #1,726 | 33 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,319 | 49 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,487 | 39 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,367 | 44 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,828 | 27 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,361 | 18 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,983 | 22 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,612 | 29 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,473 | 33 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,987 | 21 | |
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| 1951 | — | #3,066 | 7 | |
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| 1914 | — | #3,264 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Idris! It came in at #3,264, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1950, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Idris is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#435 · 1 in 2,476
- Maryland#491 · 1 in 2,495
- Virginia#539 · 1 in 3,008
- Michigan#580 · 1 in 3,305
- Minnesota#590 · 1 in 3,142
Best ever in a state: #358 in Illinois, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #435 | 36 | 1 in 2,476 |
| Maryland | #491 | 10 | 1 in 2,495 |
| Virginia | #539 | 13 | 1 in 3,008 |
| Michigan | #580 | 13 | 1 in 3,305 |
| Minnesota | #590 | 8 | 1 in 3,142 |
| Massachusetts | #650 | 6 | 1 in 4,753 |
| New Jersey | #682 | 9 | 1 in 4,506 |
| Ohio | #744 | 11 | 1 in 4,929 |
| Missouri | #756 | 6 | 1 in 4,757 |
| California | #792 | 31 | 1 in 6,109 |
| Texas | #810 | 30 | 1 in 5,704 |
| Illinois | #822 | 10 | 1 in 5,391 |
| Georgia | #830 | 10 | 1 in 5,037 |
| Florida | #920 | 14 | 1 in 6,626 |
| Pennsylvania | #924 | 8 | 1 in 6,932 |
| Washington | #973 | 5 | 1 in 6,680 |
| North Carolina | #1,119 | 6 | 1 in 8,506 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Idris
- 46 spots since 2024 (#740 → #694)
- 134 spots since 2020 (#828 → #694)
- 593 spots since 2015 (#1,287 → #694)
- Biggest jump: 107 spots in 2019 (#958 → #851)
- Biggest drop: 27 spots in 2021 (#828 → #855)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 2025 at #694 (391 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 2018–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,368 boys born in 2025 were named Idris (0.02%)
- 38.5% of all boys named Idris (1,938) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,264 (1914) | #3,264 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 7 | #3,066 (1951) | #3,066 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 282 | #1,319 (1979) | #1,713 |
| 1980s | 283 | #1,548 (1981) | #2,114 |
| 1990s | 345 | #1,933 (1997) | #2,396 |
| 2000s | 543 | #1,546 (2009) | #2,319 |
| 2010s | 1,628 | #851 (2019) | #1,200 |
| 2020s | 1,938 | #694 (2025) | #779 |
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.
Idris in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 328,172 of them was named Idris, which outranked 13.7% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,425 names at #15,251; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 6,385 of them was named Idris, which outranked 93.9% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).