Ehsaan
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- eh-SAHN
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,329 for boys
Ehsaan is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “excellence, doing good”. In 2025 it ranked 3,329th for boys in the UK (6 babies).
What does Ehsaan mean?
Arabic: spelling of Ehsan; Persian and Urdu spelling of Arabic Ihsan
“excellence, doing good”
Ihsan, worshipping with excellence, is one of the three dimensions of faith described in the Hadith of Gabriel.
Meaning borrowed from Ehsan. More on Wiktionary.
Is Ehsaan a girl's or a boy's name?
Ehsaan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ehsaan in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,329among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 50,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 56% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the UK were named Ehsaan, making it the 3,329th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,803rd. Its busiest year was 2009, with 14 boys.
Half of all the boys named Ehsaan in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 25 boys in the UK were given Ehsaan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,076, up from #3,329 for this spelling alone.
- Ehsan 19
- Ehsaan 6
Among boys in 2025, it was 3,239th in England and Wales.
Ehsaan in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,329 |
| 2024 | 10 | #2,328 |
| 2023 | 9 | #2,468 |
| 2022 | 7 | #2,922 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,188 |
| 2020 | 3 | #4,803 |
| 2019 | 7 | #2,878 |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,162 |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,191 |
| 2016 | 14 | #1,804 |
| 2015 | 5 | #3,527 |
| 2014 | 14 | #1,743 |
| 2013 | 11 | #2,033 |
| 2012 | 13 | #1,850 |
| 2011 | 10 | #2,158 |
| 2010 | 9 | #2,306 |
| 2009 | 14 | #1,674 |
| 2008 | 13 | #1,696 |
| 2007 | 3 | #4,486 |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,013 |
| 2005 | 6 | #2,545 |
| 2004 | 3 | #3,792 |
| 2003 | 6 | #2,283 |
| 2002 | 4 | #2,751 |
| 2001 | 4 | #2,714 |
| 2000 | 3 | #3,146 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 5 | #2,109 |
Names like Ehsaan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad Ahmed Abdullah Zayan Zayaan Azaan Musa Rayyan Mustafa Zayd Ibrahim Umar
Other spellings of Ehsaan
Names related to Ehsaan
More Arabic names
Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ehsaan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ehsaan, updated 20 October 2026.