Ihsan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ihsan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Türkiye it is the 80th most common given name. Recorded meaning: An act of doing something good, being good.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 11K
- DEGermany≈1 in 35K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈80,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Iḥsān in AF Afghanistan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
An act of doing something good, being good.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ihsan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈80,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Ihsan | 42 |
| TR Türkiye | #80 | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Ihsan | 116 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Iḥsān | 6 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Ihsan | 9 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Ihsan | 85 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Ihsan | 8 |
| US United States | — | 1,083 | 1 in 307K | 908 | Ihsan | 182 |
| CY Cyprus | #572 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Ihsan | 10 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ihsan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. İyilik etme, iyilik. 2. Bağış, bağışlama. 3. Bağışlanan şey.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
, 2 ‘Charity’, ‘benefaction’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
benevolent action;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In Arabic, benevolence, charity, sincerity, beneficence, kindness
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In English, The practice of showing one's faith in deed and action, as though watched by Allah.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ali İhsan Sâbisb. 1882TRTurkish general and statesperson (1882–1957)
- Ihsan Nurib. 1892TRKurdish soldier and politician (1892-1976)
- İhsan Sabri Çağlayangilb. 1908TRTurkish statesperson (1908–1993)
- İhsan Doğramacıb. 1915TRTurkish pediatrician (1915–2010)
- Ihsan Abdel Quddousb. 1919EGEgyptian writer and novelist (1919–1990)
- Ihsan Abbasb. 1920JOPalestinian literary scholar and Arabist
- Ahmed İhsan Kırımlıb. 1920TRTurkish statesperson (1920–2011)
- İhsan Oktay Anarb. 1960TRTurkish writer/illustrator/academic
- İhsan Ayb. 1987TRTurkish actor (born 1987)
- Ihsan Haddadb. 1994JOfootballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 63 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 211 | #93,282 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 102 | #158,432 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ihsan mean, and where does it come from?
- An act of doing something good, being good. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ihsan a male or female name?
- Ihsan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ihsan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 80 thousand people named Ihsan in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ihsan.
- How common is the name Ihsan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,083 people named Ihsan in 2020, about 1 in 307 thousand residents.
- How common is Ihsan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Ihsan is the 80th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ihsanThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ihsan” — the 80th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.