Ayaan
#5,554 for girls in 2025, 22 births · #465 for boys in 2025, 664 births
Given to boys 97.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 645 births
- Debut · boys
- 18 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,903since 2000
Ayaan over time
Rank among boys' names. Ayaan has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,554 | 22 | #465 | 664 |
| 2024 | #5,799 | 21 | #519 | 590 |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 | #512 | 586 |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | #562 | 528 |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 | #514 | 570 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #460 | 645 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #516 | 553 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 | #532 | 530 |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #551 | 503 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #630 | 424 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #637 | 416 |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 | #574 | 485 |
| 2013 | #10,235 | 10 | #638 | 388 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | #665 | 355 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #710 | 322 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 | #759 | 296 |
| 2009 | #7,066 | 18 | #827 | 265 |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | #912 | 226 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #1,031 | 182 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | #1,339 | 122 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #2,237 | 53 |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #1,235 | 122 |
| 2003 | — | #3,528 | 25 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,322 | 18 | |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #4,476 | 17 |
| 2000 | — | #4,204 | 18 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ayaan! It came in at #4,204, and was given to 18 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2000–2003, when fewer than 26 boys a year got the name.
Where Ayaan is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#217 · 1 in 887
- Maryland#244 · 1 in 972
- Virginia#302 · 1 in 1,258
- Pennsylvania#322 · 1 in 1,493
- New York#328 · 1 in 1,544
Best ever in a state: #142 in Delaware, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #217 | 45 | 1 in 887 |
| Maryland | #244 | 24 | 1 in 972 |
| Virginia | #302 | 30 | 1 in 1,258 |
| Pennsylvania | #322 | 35 | 1 in 1,493 |
| New York | #328 | 56 | 1 in 1,544 |
| Georgia | #354 | 32 | 1 in 1,597 |
| Illinois | #377 | 29 | 1 in 1,731 |
| California | #395 | 87 | 1 in 2,072 |
| Washington | #420 | 17 | 1 in 1,913 |
| Michigan | #455 | 19 | 1 in 2,104 |
| Texas | #466 | 74 | 1 in 2,416 |
| Massachusetts | #481 | 10 | 1 in 2,703 |
| North Carolina | #564 | 17 | 1 in 3,009 |
| Florida | #567 | 30 | 1 in 3,188 |
| Ohio | #705 | 12 | 1 in 4,391 |
| Missouri | #746 | 6 | 1 in 4,571 |
| Minnesota | #812 | 5 | 1 in 4,821 |
| Tennessee | #838 | 7 | 1 in 5,180 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Ayaan
- 54 spots since 2024 (#519 → #465)
- 5 spots since 2020 (#460 → #465)
- 172 spots since 2015 (#637 → #465)
- Biggest jump: 119 spots in 2008 (#1,031 → #912)
- Biggest drop: 63 spots in 2015 (#574 → #637)
- Debuted 2000
- Peaked 2020 at #460 (645 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 2008–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,572 boys born in 2025 were named Ayaan (0.04%)
- Its best rank, #460 in 2020, was only 1 in 2,676 (0.04%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 48.0% of all boys named Ayaan (4,272) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,048 | #827 (2009) | #2,411 |
| 2010s | 4,272 | #516 (2019) | #621 |
| 2020s | 3,583 | #460 (2020) | #505 |
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.
Ayaan in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 77,152 of them was named Ayaan, which outranked 67.3% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,615Zina22
- #5,615Zniyah22
- #5,615Zyrah22
- #5,799Ayaan21
- #5,799Aamina21
- #5,799Aarvika21
- #5,799Adaleya21
- #5,962Aaleyah20
- #5,962Adanna20
- #5,962Adaora20
Tied with 162 names at #5,799; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 2,920 of them was named Ayaan, which outranked 96.4% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.