Aryan
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #871 for boys in 2025, 275 births
Given to boys 91.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2007 · 406 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,106since 1978
Aryan 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 | #14,942 | 5 | #871 | 275 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | #785 | 320 |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 | #741 | 355 |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | #820 | 302 |
| 2021 | #5,398 | 23 | #788 | 312 |
| 2020 | #5,003 | 25 | #841 | 271 |
| 2019 | #5,306 | 24 | #714 | 342 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 | #772 | 300 |
| 2017 | #4,811 | 28 | #742 | 321 |
| 2016 | #4,423 | 32 | #708 | 345 |
| 2015 | #4,725 | 29 | #698 | 360 |
| 2014 | #5,625 | 23 | #747 | 317 |
| 2013 | #4,076 | 36 | #698 | 342 |
| 2012 | #4,486 | 32 | #671 | 352 |
| 2011 | #5,728 | 23 | #689 | 342 |
| 2010 | #4,180 | 35 | #714 | 326 |
| 2009 | #4,482 | 33 | #762 | 298 |
| 2008 | #4,647 | 32 | #680 | 355 |
| 2007 | #5,230 | 27 | #613 | 406 |
| 2006 | #4,165 | 35 | #689 | 326 |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 | #681 | 307 |
| 2004 | #5,969 | 20 | #644 | 321 |
| 2003 | #6,299 | 18 | #745 | 240 |
| 2002 | #6,392 | 17 | #872 | 188 |
| 2001 | #5,364 | 21 | #1,191 | 114 |
| 2000 | #5,937 | 18 | #2,425 | 39 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 | #2,398 | 37 |
| 1998 | #3,914 | 29 | #2,851 | 28 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | #2,750 | 28 |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 | #2,747 | 27 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #2,923 | 24 |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 | #3,326 | 20 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #2,577 | 28 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #3,220 | 20 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #3,224 | 19 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | #2,780 | 23 |
| 1989 | — | #3,325 | 17 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #4,786 | 9 |
| 1987 | — | #5,459 | 7 | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | — | #4,052 | 10 | |
| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,499 | 8 | |
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| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #5,468 | 6 |
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| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | #5,772 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Aryan! It came in at #5,772, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1978–1980, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Aryan is popular in 1978
No state had 5 or more boys named Aryan in 1978, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Aryan
- 86 spots since 2024 (#785 → #871)
- 30 spots since 2020 (#841 → #871)
- 173 spots since 2015 (#698 → #871)
- Biggest jump: 319 spots in 2002 (#1,191 → #872)
- Biggest drop: 127 spots in 2020 (#714 → #841)
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 2007 at #613 (406 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 24 yrs · run 2002–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,819 boys born in 2023 were named Aryan (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,211 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #613 in 2007, was only 1 in 5,112 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 41.3% of all boys named Aryan (3,347) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1998, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #5,772 (1978) | #5,772 |
| 1980s | 71 | #3,325 (1989) | #4,795 |
| 1990s | 254 | #2,398 (1999) | #2,880 |
| 2000s | 2,594 | #613 (2007) | #930 |
| 2010s | 3,347 | #671 (2012) | #715 |
| 2020s | 1,835 | #741 (2023) | #808 |
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.
Aryan in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 306,372 of them was named Aryan, which outranked 15.0% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,725 names at #9,750; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 328,367 of them was named Aryan, which outranked 14.6% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 990 names at #5,772; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.