Affan
#4,396 for boys in 2025, 23 births
- Peak · boys
- 2019 · 55 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 575since 1998
Affan over time
Rank among boys' names. Affan has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,396 | 23 |
| 2024 | #4,321 | 24 |
| 2023 | #2,895 | 43 |
| 2022 | #3,464 | 33 |
| 2021 | #4,247 | 24 |
| 2020 | #3,811 | 27 |
| 2019 | #2,421 | 55 |
| 2018 | #3,240 | 35 |
| 2017 | #3,249 | 35 |
| 2016 | #3,681 | 29 |
| 2015 | #2,966 | 39 |
| 2014 | #3,234 | 34 |
| 2013 | #3,122 | 35 |
| 2012 | #4,686 | 20 |
| 2011 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2009 | #5,334 | 17 |
| 2008 | #6,070 | 14 |
| 2007 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #7,427 | 10 |
| 2005 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #8,927 | 7 |
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| 2002 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | #8,209 | 7 |
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| 1998 | #6,843 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Affan! It came in at #6,843, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1999, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Affan is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
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- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,137 · 1 in 10,000
Best ever in a state: #962 in New Jersey, 2018.
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| New York | #1,137 | 10 | 1 in 10,000 |
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See more about Affan
- 75 spots since 2024 (#4,321 → #4,396)
- 585 spots since 2020 (#3,811 → #4,396)
- 1,430 spots since 2015 (#2,966 → #4,396)
- Debuted 1998
- Peaked 2019 at #2,421 (55 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 32,622 boys born in 2019 were named Affan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 74,264 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 53.6% of all boys named Affan (308) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 8 | #6,843 (1998) | #6,843 |
| 2000s | 85 | #5,334 (2009) | #7,892 |
| 2010s | 308 | #2,421 (2019) | #3,921 |
| 2020s | 174 | #2,895 (2023) | #3,856 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Affan in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 65,439 of them was named Affan, which outranked 74.1% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,596Yan30
- #3,596Yeshaya30
- #3,596Zakariah30
- #3,681Affan29
- #3,681Abdoulaye29
- #3,681Akil29
- #3,681Aldin29
- #3,776Aadhav28
- #3,776Adian28
- #3,776Aleksandar28
Tied with 94 names at #3,681; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.