Afnan
#3,389 for girls in 2025, 45 births · #5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
Given to girls 77.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 45 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 670since 1985
Afnan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,389 | 45 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 2024 | #3,459 | 45 | #6,832 | 12 |
| 2023 | #4,114 | 35 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #4,793 | 28 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #3,614 | 42 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #5,850 | 20 | #6,620 | 12 |
| 2019 | #4,546 | 30 | #7,643 | 10 |
| 2018 | #5,619 | 22 | #5,106 | 18 |
| 2017 | #4,576 | 30 | #6,338 | 13 |
| 2016 | #5,622 | 23 | #5,789 | 15 |
| 2015 | #4,981 | 27 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 | — | |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 | — | |
| 2011 | #8,196 | 14 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #5,602 | 24 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 | — | |
| 2008 | #7,073 | 18 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #7,733 | 16 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #8,715 | 13 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #8,259 | 13 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 | — | |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 | — | |
| 1999 | #5,424 | 19 | — | |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | — | |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | — | |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | — | |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | — | |
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| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | — | |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 | — | |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | — | |
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| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | — | |
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| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Afnan! It came in at #10,677, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1985–1987, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Afnan is popular in 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#2,113 · 1 in 16,980
Best ever in a state: #344 in Minnesota, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #2,113 | 5 | 1 in 16,980 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Afnan
- 70 spots since 2024 (#3,459 → #3,389)
- 2,461 spots since 2020 (#5,850 → #3,389)
- 1,592 spots since 2015 (#4,981 → #3,389)
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 2025 at #3,389 (45 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 35,717 girls born in 2025 were named Afnan (0.00%)
- 33.3% of all girls named Afnan (223) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 12 | #9,244 (1988) | #9,961 |
| 1990s | 79 | #5,424 (1999) | #8,987 |
| 2000s | 141 | #6,811 (2009) | #8,110 |
| 2010s | 223 | #4,546 (2019) | #5,982 |
| 2020s | 215 | #3,389 (2025) | #4,203 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Afnan in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 55,946 of them was named Afnan, which outranked 74.8% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,437Zoella31
- #4,437Zophia31
- #4,437Zulay31
- #4,546Afnan30
- #4,546Adair30
- #4,546Ahna30
- #4,546Akeelah30
- #4,653Aasiyah29
- #4,653Adaiah29
- #4,653Addisen29
Tied with 106 names at #4,546; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 179,422 of them was named Afnan, which outranked 45.9% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,173Zy11
- #7,173Zyden11
- #7,173Zyeir11
- #7,643Afnan10
- #7,643Aadith10
- #7,643Aaliyan10
- #7,643Aaris10
- #8,215Aahaan9
- #8,215Aarian9
- #8,215Aavash9
Tied with 571 names at #7,643; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.