Boy · Basque (modern coinage)
Iker
Say it: EE-ker
Meaning
A 20th-century Basque coinage, the masculine of Ikerne, which was created as a Basque equivalent of Visitación from the verb ikertu 'to examine, investigate'. The often-quoted meaning 'visitation' reflects that devotional link, not an old word.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 2010s
In the United States
- 14,871 babies given this name since 1998
- At its height in 2015, about 1 in 879 boys
- 798 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Iker Casillas, Spanish goalkeeper
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Where this comes from
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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