Idris

What Idris means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #142 vs #694 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Idris?

US: Rising: up from #1287 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #280 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 391 boys got the name (#694 that year). First in the US records in 1914.

How common

• About 1 in 4,368 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 739 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,511 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 IL (0.59 per 1,000 boys), CT (0.53 per 1,000 boys), NV (0.53 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Idris is #694 in the US and #142 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 98.5% of US babies named Idris were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Idrees56 US · 99 E&W
• Edris25 US · 7 E&W
• Idriss8 US · 5 E&W
• Edras10 US
• Adris7 US

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 Idris

Boys

• Imran#969Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1970, with 8 babies
• Musa#469Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #64 vs #469 in 2025
• Muhammad#239“praised, commendable, laudable”^*
• Callum#118Variant of Calum, meaning “dove”^*
• Salem#679Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #679 vs #1,359 in 2025
• Ellis#243“benevolent, kind”^*

For a sister

• Ellis#682“benevolent, kind”^*
• Zahra#538Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 8 babies
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Salem#435Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,425 in 2015, #435 in 2025
• Maryam#351Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #52 vs #351 in 2025
• Amina#315“faithful, trustworthy”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Arabic, Irish & Celtic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Idris’s. Rank is US 2025.