Iban
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.
Iban by the numbers
Iban was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 29 babies in 2002, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Iban
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Iban. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Iangod is gracious; a form of john5,012 in the US (2017)
- Ivangod is gracious; a form of John3,038 in the US (2017)
- Imanfaith; belief48 in England and Wales (2025)
- Ilantree119 in the US (2017)
- Ioangod is gracious; welsh form of john31 in England and Wales (2025)
- Idanmy father judged; God judged21 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Iban
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