Peak popularity
1978
Usually for
Boys
Trend
Holding steady
Holding steady.
Popularity of Iron since 1978
Babies named Iron per year in U.S. Social Security records. Raw births topped out in 2005, but relative to how few babies were recorded back then, Iron's real moment was 1978.
Data table (by decade)
| Decade | Boys |
|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 |
| 1980s | 0 |
| 1990s | 0 |
| 2000s | 7 |
| 2010s | 10 |
| 2020s | 0 |
“Iron” around the world
Where Iron lands in the latest official birth statistics abroad, matched to the U.S. spelling.
France
5
babies in 2024
Sources: INSEE (France).
