Idris is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Idris isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Idris ranks 915. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Idris. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Idris.
Idris is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Idris cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #711 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2022. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Idris, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Idris seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Idris was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The odds that a man or boy named Idris lives in your home state are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This boy’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet boys and men with the name Idris in 23 states – which is obviously nearly every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado or Florida. In relation to the number of residents, the most men and boys with the first name Idris live in New Jersey – here, one in 22,244 bears this name. In comparison, if we look at all living men and boys in the whole country, only one in 69,091 will turn around if you call his first name Idris.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter I is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an I. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Idris is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 1.5% of all boys' names begin with an I, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with I that are quite popular, the most common at present is Isaac.
If your name is Idris and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Idris, you can simply say:
Igloo
Dinosaur
Rocket
Igloo
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Idris
Idris
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
I
D
R
I
S
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
I
D
R
I
S
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Idris sounds like this:
