Ioan

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ioan: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ioan: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #292 in 2005, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#292highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#898
1997	#1010
1998	#738
1999	#363
2000	#321
2001	#331
2002	#310
2003	#340
2004	#359
2005	#292
2006	#377
2007	#296
2008	#344
2009	#366
2010	#410
2011	#420
2012	#434
2013	#479
2014	#471
2015	#399
2016	#459
2017	#460
2018	#425
2019	#523
2020	#611
2021	#556
2022	#492
2023	#625
2024	#613

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2021: #556 among boys in England and Wales, #631 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #898 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #292 among boys in England and Wales, in 2005 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Ioan appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,295 births with the name.

Ioan across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ioan's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#898 (1996)	#292 (2005)	#613 (2024)	29 of 29	2,295 (1996–2024)	129 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#698 (2008)	#542 (2010)	#829 (2025)	5 of 18	18 (2008–2025)	5 (2010)

Ioan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ioan in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	115	4 of 10	29
2000sbusiest	957	10 of 10	96
2010s	898	10 of 10	90
2020s	325	5 of 10	65

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 96 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1998 and 1999, when recorded births rose by 41, from 22 to 63.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ioan appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #292 in England and Wales in 2005.

Ioan's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#613	62	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#625	57	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#492	79	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#556	69	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#611	58	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#523	73	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#425	99	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#460	90	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#459	88	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#399	106	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#471	84	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#479	80	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#434	91	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#420	94	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#410	93	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#366	106	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#344	112	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#296	129	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#377	91	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#292	110	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#359	82	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#340	80	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#310	86	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#331	79	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#321	82	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#363	63	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#738	22	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1010	14	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#898	16	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#631	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#542	5	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#701	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#698	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #292, first reached in 2005.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 129 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 12 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Insiya · #898, 11y
Io · #2711, 13y
Ioana · #465, 25y
Ioanna · #2286, 23y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Oluwatobi · #292, 29y
Corbin · #293, 26y
Harri · #293, 29y
Natalya · #291, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Anais · #292, 30y
Oluwatobi · #292, 29y
Arvin · #291, 30y
Bobbi · #291, 30y

Ioan was ranked #292 in England and Wales · Boys in 2005. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ioan and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ioan without appearing here.

Ioan moved ahead of

Geoffrey Compare
In 1998 they stood at #738 and #571 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #363 and #1082.
Brent Compare
In 1998 they stood at #738 and #571 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #363 and #1027.
Graeme Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1010 and #874 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #738 and #1367.
Courtney Compare
In 1998 they stood at #738 and #554 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #363 and #973.

Moved ahead of Ioan

Tadhg Compare
In 2022 they stood at #492 and #600 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #625 and #419.
Hunter Compare
In 2011 they stood at #420 and #473 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #434 and #238.
Mathias Compare
In 2019 they stood at #523 and #541 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #611 and #467.
Ollie Compare
In 2003 they stood at #340 and #377 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #359 and #255.

Moved the opposite way to Ioan

Brent Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Ioan went from #898 to #492 while Brent went from #898 to #3449.
Tor Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Ioan went from #898 to #492 while Tor went from #2020 to #3449.
Arlo Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ioan went from #363 to #613 while Arlo went from #2943 to #15.
Harper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ioan went from #363 to #613 while Harper went from #2425 to #1402.

Moved the same way as Ioan

Espen Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ioan went from #310 to #613 and Espen from #3225 to #5119.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #292 in England and Wales in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ioan

Ioan at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ioan across 2 official records

Ioan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Ioan across 2 official records

Ioan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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