Given name & surname
Iban
“God is gracious”
Iban is a variant of Ivan. In Slavic use, Ivan carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Iban is a variant of Ivan. In Slavic use, Ivan carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Iban through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 524
- 524 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2002
- 29 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 29 in 2002. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 601 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Iban’s family of names
In Basque usage, Iban has a conventional equivalent in the French form Jean. Iban has a related form in Ivan. In Korean usage, Iban is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 이반.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Iban
- Iban IyangaEquatorial Guinean association football playerborn 1987
- Iban ZubiaurreSpanish footballerborn 1983
- Iban García del BlancoSpanish politicianborn 1977
- Iban ZalduaSpanish writerborn 1966
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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