Ikea
Recorded 1985–2012 · United States
Ikea was most popular in 1989, when 81 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,772 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 589 people named Ikea.
Ikea over time
How old is the name Ikea?
Ikea first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1985, which makes it about 40 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 23 of the 41 years since. It was last recorded in 2012.
How many people are named Ikea?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 589 American births named Ikea between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 577 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Ikea in 2025?
Ikea was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Ikea getting more or less popular?
Ikea is out of use. It averaged 5 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Ikea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Ikea is a girl’s name — 98.5% of the 589 Americans given it were girls and 1.5% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Ikea?
Roughly 577 Americans named Ikea are alive today — 98% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 35 years old, and half are between 31 and 37. That is a narrow band: Ikea arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Ikea is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org