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Jibran

Boy · jib-RAHN · Arabic

Jibran is a boys' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 2,511th for boys in the UK (9 babies) and 4,706th for boys in the US (21 babies).

What does Jibran mean?

Arabic: Arabic name, also spelled Gibran

Known through Kahlil Gibran, the Lebanese-American author of The Prophet (1923).

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jib-RAHN

Is Jibran a girl's or a boy's name?

Jibran is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the UK and 21 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Jibran in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#2,511among boys
Babies in 2025
9about 1 in 33,000 boys
Five-year trend
Risingup 50% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 9 boys in the UK were named Jibran, making it the 2,511th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,185th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 18 boys.

Half of all the boys named Jibran in the UK since 1996 were born between 2004 and 2018. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier boys aren't counted.

Among boys in 2025, it was 2,436th in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 18 in 20242025
Jibran in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20259#2,511
202418#1,528
20239#2,468
20226#3,219
20214#4,188
202010#2,185
20193#4,913
201811#2,088
20175#3,608
20169#2,468
201510#2,260
20148#2,593
201310#2,176
20126#3,167
201110#2,158
20106#3,092
20095#3,395
20089#2,212
200710#1,987
20067#2,386
200510#1,814
20049#1,831
20039#1,723
20027#1,900
20019#1,547
20003#3,146
19997#1,749
19988#1,569
19975#2,109
19966#1,840

How popular is Jibran in the US?

Rank in 2025
#4,706among boys
Babies in 2025
21about 1 in 81,000 boys
Five-year trend
Risingup 29% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 21 boys in the US were named Jibran, making it the 4,706th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,976th. It first appears in the records in 1990.

2025 had the most boys named Jibran of any year since it first appeared, in 1990.

Half of all the boys named Jibran in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

1990Busiest: 21 in 20252025
Jibran in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202521#4,706
202414#6,194
202314#6,215
202210#7,762
202113#6,330
202014#5,976
201917#5,336
20187#9,664
201718#5,107
201615#5,785
201513#6,320
201411#7,043
201316#5,400
201214#5,995
20119#8,072
201019#4,845
200918#5,100
20089#8,319
200716#5,431
200611#6,899
200515#5,273
200416#5,002
200314#5,265
200217#4,496
200114#5,135
20008#7,409
19995#9,905
19988#6,837
19976#8,104
19960–
19950–
19947#6,962
19930–
19926#7,414
19915#8,228
19907#6,408

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