Idrees

What Idrees means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Idrees yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #408 vs #2,421 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Idrees?

US: Rising: up from #4295 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #692 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2021, when 58 boys got the name (#2349 that year). First in the US records in 1977.

How common

• About 1 in 30,501 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,747 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,910 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in VA (0.19 per 1,000 boys), IL (0.14 per 1,000 boys), NY (0.12 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Idrees is #2421 in the US and #408 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Idrees were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Idris391 US · 368 E&W
• Idriss8 US · 5 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Idrees

Boys

• Atlas#75Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #487 in 2015, #75 in 2025
• Saint#267From the word “saint”^*
• Nash#255Editor’s note Up from #345 in 2015 to #255 in 2025 in the US
• Tobias#283“my good is YHWH”^*
• Matias#170From Biblical Hebrew, meaning “gift of Yahweh”^*
• Ezekiel#61“God strengthens”^*

For a sister

• Milani#288Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #664 in 2015, #288 in 2025
• Nova#46“new”^*
• Kaylani#185Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,054 in 2015, #185 in 2025
• Amara#98“eternal”^*
• Magnolia#124Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #634 in 2015, #124 in 2025
• Leilani#60Hawaiian, meaning “a lei; a child + heavenly, royal”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Idrees’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.