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 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#549 · 1 in 2,430
Best ever in a state: #344 in Minnesota, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #549 | 9 | 1 in 2,430 |
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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 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 58,576 of them was named Afnan, which outranked 73.0% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,671Zaylani29
- #4,671Zoi29
- #4,671Zurie29
- #4,793Afnan28
- #4,793Abrianna28
- #4,793Akasha28
- #4,793Aleana28
- #4,907Abygail27
- #4,907Adaley27
- #4,907Adelene27
Tied with 113 names at #4,793; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 249,430 of them was named Afnan, which outranked 31.5% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,990Zyree8
- #8,990Zyren8
- #8,990Zyrus8
- #9,823Afnan7
- #9,823Aaban7
- #9,823Aarik7
- #9,823Aashay7
- #10,863Aadan6
- #10,863Aagam6
- #10,863Aahaan6
Tied with 1,039 names at #9,823; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.