Ian


Gender:
Origin: Hebrew
2793 famous people named Ian found on Wikipedia.
226868 male, 754 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 79-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 65-th in year 2003
Used in: English, Scottish

Meanings

A male given name, Scottish form of John.

Ian, Iain (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈɪʲən]) is a name of Scottish Gaelic origin, ultimately derived from Hebrew Yohanan and corresponding to English John. It is a very popular name in much of the English-speaking world and especially in Scotland, where it originated. Ian was the 19th most popular male name, taking account of the whole British population (over 300,000 Ians in total).
The name has now fallen out of the top 100 male baby names in the UK, having peaked in popularity as one of the top 10 names throughout the 1960s, while remaining roughly constant in popularity in the USA. Back in 1900, Ian was the 180th most popular male baby name in England and Wales.
The original Irish Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic form of the name is Seán (or Seathan). Ian is a variant spelling of the Scoticisations Eathain, Eóin, and Iain.
Other Gaelic forms of "John" include "Seonaidh" ("Johnny" from Lowland Scots), "Seon" (from English), "Seathan", and "Seán" and "Eoin" (from Irish). Its Welsh counterpart is Ioan and Breton equivalent is Yann.

Masc. proper name, Scottish form of John (q.v.).

Scottish form of John: God is gracious.

Famous People: 2793 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Ian McKellen 1939 British actor
2 Ian Somerhalder 1978 American actor, model and director
3 Ian McShane 1942 English actor, director, producer and voice artist
4 Ian Fleming 1908 English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer
5 Ian Curtis 1956 Musician and songwriter
6 Ian McDiarmid 1944 Scottish actor and stage director
7 Ian Watkins 1977 Welsh musician, paedophile and convicted attempted child rapist
8 Ian Holm 1931 British actor
9 Ian Harding 1986 German-American actor
10 Ian Thorpe 1982 Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, world record-holder
11 Ian Gomez 1964 American actor
12 Ian Ziering 1964 American actor
13 Ian Whyte 1971 Welsh basketball player, actor, and stuntman
14 Ian Gillan 1945 English rock singer and songwriter
15 Ian Rush 1961 Welsh footballer
16 Ian Anderson 1947 Scottish musician, leader of Jethro Tull
17 Ian Dury 1942 English musician
18 Ian Paisley 1926 Politician and former church minister
19 Ian Hart 1964 English stage, television and film actor
20 Ian Hislop 1960 Satirical comedian, Editor, Television and radio presenter
21 Ian McEwan 1948 British author
22 Ian Lavender 1946 English actor
23 Ian Veneracion 1975 Filipino actor
24 Ian Khama 1953 Botswanan Politician
25 Ian Gallagher 1989
26 Ian Brown 1963 English musician and singer of The Stone Roses
27 Ian Clark 1991 American basketball player
28 Ian Anthony Dale 1978 American actor
29 Janis Ian 1951 American singer-songwriter and writer
30 Ian Botham 1955 Former England Test cricketer and Test team captain, and current cricket commentator
31 Ian Beale 1968 Fictional character
32 Scott Ian 1963 American musician
33 Ian Richardson 1934 British actor
34 Ian MacKaye 1962 Hardcore musician, record label director, promoter of Straight Edge lifestyle
35 Ian Murdock 1973 American computer scientist, open source developer, entrepreneur
36 Ian Astbury 1962 Rock musician; lead singer for The Cult
37 Ian McNeice 1950 British actor
38 Ian McCall 1984 American martial artist
39 Ian Andrews 1964 Professional footballer
40 Ian Hallard 1974 British actor
41 Ian Rankin 1960 Scottish crime writer
42 Ian Paice 1948 British musician
43 Ian Holloway 1963 English footballer and manager
44 Ian Abercrombie 1934 Actor
45 Ian Ogilvy 1943 British actor
46 Ian McElhinney 1948 Northern Irish actor, director
47 Ian "H" Watkins 1976 Welsh singer
48 Ian Bremmer 1969 American political scientist
49 Ian Waite 1971 English dacner
50 Ian Poulter 1976 Professional golfer
51 Ian Charleson 1949 Scottish actor
52 Ian Kinsler 1982 Baseball player from the United States
53 Ian Bohen 1976 American actor
54 Ian Desmond 1985 American baseball player
55 Ian Lithgow 1972 American actor
56 Ian Gelder 1949 British actor
57 Ian Kershaw 1943 British historian
58 Ian Sinclair 1984 American actor
59 Ian Bannen 1928 Scottish character actor and occasional leading man
60 Ian Nelson 1995 American actor, born 1995
61 Ian Bell 1982 Cricket player of England.
62 Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll 1903 Scottish Peer
63 Ian Jones-Quartey 1984 American animator
64 Ian McLagan 1945 British musician
65 Ian Michael Smith 1987 American actor
66 Ian Schrager 1946 American businessman
67 Ian James Corlett 1962 Canadian actor
68 Ian Mahinmi 1986 French basketball player
69 Ian Gow 1937 British Conservative MP killed by an IRA bomb
70 Ian Hendry 1931 English actor
71 Ian Tracey 1964 Canadian actor
72 Ian Carmichael 1920 Actor
73 Ian Stuart Donaldson 1957 English musician, singer and songwriter
74 Ian Kelsey 1966 British actor
75 Ian Chappell 1943 Cricketer
76 Ian Hill 1951 British musician
77 Ian Cathro 1986
78 Ian Harte 1977 Irish footballer
79 Ian Hutchinson 1979 British motorcycle racer
80 Ian Brzezinski 2000 American government official
81 Ian McLellan Hunter 1915 British-American scenarist
82 Ian Woosnam 1958 Professional golfer
83 Ian Happ 1994 American professional second baseman
84 Ian Beattie 1965 British actor
85 Ian Stevenson 1918 Canadian parapsychologist, reincarnation researcher
86 Ian Axel 1985 Germaan
87 Ian Buchanan 1957 Scottish actor
88 Ian Healy 1964 Cricketer
89 Ian Wright 1965 British television presenter
90 Ian Puleston-Davies 1958 Welsh actor and writer
91 Ian SBF Brazilian film and television director and screenwriter
92 Ian Petrella 1974 American actor
93 Ian Eastwood 1993
94 Ian Madigan 1989 Irish rugby union player
95 Ian Kennedy 1984 American baseball player
96 Ian Tyson 1933 Canadian musician
97 Ian Copeland 1949 American music promoter
98 Ian Callaghan 1942 English footballer
99 Ian Harvie 1968 American comedian
100 Ian Stanley 1957 British musician
101 Ian Baker-Finch 1960 Professional golfer
102 Ian Read 1953 British businessman
103 Ian Woodall 1955 British mountain climber
104 Ian Wolfe 1896 Actor
105 Ian Walker 1971 Footballer; football manager
106 Ian McGeechan 1946 British rugby union player and coach from Scotland
107 Ian Callum 1955 British car designer
108 Ian Bliss 1966 Australian actor
109 Ian Brennan 1978 American television producer, screenwriter and actor
110 Ian St. John 1938 Scottish footballer and manager
111 Ian MacDonald 1948 British journalist
112 Ian Kahn 1972 American actor
113 Ian Hacking 1936 Canadian philosopher
114 Ian Shaw 1969 British actor
115 Ian Rotten 1970 American professional wrestler
116 Ian Brady 1938 British serial killer, perpetrator of the Moors murders
117 John Watson 1850 British theologian and writer
118 Ian Eagle 1969 American sports announcer
119 Ian Millar 1947 Equestrian
120 Ian D'Sa 1975 Canadian musician
121 Ian Black 1985 Scottish footballer
122 Ian Hunter 1900 Actor
123 Ian Stewart 1945 British mathematician and science fiction author
124 Ian Broudie 1958 Musician and record producer
125 Ian Ayre 1964 Football club director
126 Ian La Frenais 1936 Writer
127 Ian Darke 1950 British association football and boxing commentator
128 Ian Moss 1955 Australian singer-songwriter, rock guitarist
129 Ian Nepomniachtchi 1990 Russian chess player
130 Ian Wilmut 1944 Embryologist
131 Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll 1937 Scottish Peer
132 Ian Livingstone 1949 Fantasy writer and entrepreneur
133 Ian Hanomansing 1961 Canadian journalist
134 Ian Cole 1989 American ice hockey defenceman
135 Ian Fang 1989 Chinese actor
136 Ian Johnson 1986 Player of American football
137 Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton 1853 British Army general
138 Ian Thomas 1950 Canadian singer-songwriter
139 Ian Thornley 1972 Canadian musician
140 Ian Rapoport 1980
141 Ian Freeman 1970 British martial artist
142 Ian Svenonius 1968 American musician
143 Ian McCaskill 1938 British weather forecaster
144 Ian Dickson 1963 Australian television personality
145 Ian Taylor 1956 British businessman
146 Ian Haugland 1964 Swedish musician
147 Ian Mercer 1961 British actor
148 Ian Buruma 1951 Dutch writer and academic
149 Ian Wood 1942 Scottish businessman
150 Ian Crocker 1982 American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, world record-holder
151 Ian Crawford 1988 American musician
152 Ian Roberts 1965 Actor
153 Ian Stannard 1987 English racing cyclist
154 Ian Wallace 1946 English drummer
155 Ian Frazer 1953 British–Australian scientist
156 Ian Cameron Esslemont 1962 Canadian writer
157 Kim Ian 1987 South Korean actor and singer
158 Ian Murray 1976 British politician
159 Ian Turpie 1943 Australian actor and Game show host
160 Ian K. Smith 1969 Physician, author
161 Ian Narev 1967 Banker
162 Ian Underwood 1939 American musician
163 Ian Matthews 1971 English rock drummer
164 Ian Bostridge 1964 English tenor
165 Ian Lavery 1963 British politician
166 Ian Terry 1991 American Big Brother winner
167 Ian McHarg 1920 Scottish landscape architect
168 Ian Bairnson 1953 Scottish musician, guitarist
169 Ian Chen 2006 American actor
170 Ian Chesterton Fictional character
171 Ian Goodison 1972 Jamaican footballer
172 Ian Kirkpatrick 1982 Musician
173 Ian McNabb 1960 British musician
174 Ian McDonald 1960 British science fiction novelist
175 Ian Craig Marsh 1956 British musician
176 Ian Scott 1973 French pornographic actor and director
177 Ian Entwistle 1986 British martial artist
178 Ian King 1956 British businessman
179 Ian Bryce 1956 Film producer
180 Ian McMillan 1956 Poet, journalist, playwright, broadcaster
181 Ian Levine 1953 British musician
182 Ian Dougald McLachlan 1911 Senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)
183 Ian Plimer 1946 Australian geologist
184 Ian Collins 1956 British broadcaster
185 Ian Halperin 1964 No.1 NY Times Bestselling Author/Award Winning Filmmaker
186 Ian Meadows 1983 Australian actor
187 Ian Ward 1972 English cricketer
188 Ian Paisley, Jr. 1966 British politician
189 Ian Baraclough 1970 English footballer and manager
190 Ian Durrant 1966 Scottish footballer
191 Ian Lawlor 1994 Irish association football player
192 Ian J. Goodfellow 1987 Computer scientist
193 Ian McCulloch 1939 Scottish actor
194 Ian Blair 1953 British peer
195 Ian Bishop 1965 English footballer
196 Ian Robertson, Lord Robertson 1912 Scottish judge
197 Ian Austin 1965 British politician
198 Ian Katz 1967 South-African born British journalist
199 Ian Hanmore 1945 British actor
200 Ian Liddell-Grainger 1959 British politician