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Ike

boy name
Origin
Hebrew
Syllables
1
Peak era
1890s/2020s
Today
▬ Steady

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Meaning

pet form of Isaac, traditionally 'he will laugh'

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The formal names behind Ike

Ike is an established short form of this name.

Isaac · Hebrew origin · "he will laugh," from Yitzchak, named for Sarah's astonished laughter at the promise of a son; a patriarch's name constant in Jewish use and beloved by Puritans, with a warm modern revival to show for it. Ike and Zac come along

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How popular is Ike around the world?

In the United States, 329 babies were named Ike between 2020 and 2025. In South Australia, 2 boys were registered as Ike in 2017.

Ike is on the official records of the United States, South Australia and Brazil.

United States

1 in 66,000

In the United States, 329 babies were named Ike between 2020 and 2025.

peak 1890s2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Ike peaked in the 1890s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.

Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration

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South Australia

1 in 9,200 · 2017

In South Australia, 2 boys were registered as Ike in 2017.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.

Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names

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Argentina

last on record 2012

Ike is not on the 2024 record for Argentina, where small counts are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.

Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024

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Austria

last on record 2010

Ike is not on the 2025 record for Austria, which publishes every first name down to a single birth, so the name was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.

Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)

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Brazil

At the 2022 census, 59 people in Brazil were named Ike, ranked 59,447th, with a median age of 16.

People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022

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England and Wales

last on record 2023

Ike is not on the 2025 record for England and Wales, where spellings under 3 in a year are withheld at source.

peak 20002025

share of that year’s name registrations

Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales

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Montevideo City

last on record 1980

Ike is not on the 2011 record for Montevideo, whose registry withholds nothing, so the spelling was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.

Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial

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Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Puerto Rico, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.

Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.

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