Ayan
#5,410 for girls in 2025, 23 births · #762 for boys in 2025, 338 births
Given to boys 82.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 338 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,091since 1975
Ayan 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,410 | 23 | #762 | 338 |
| 2024 | #5,615 | 22 | #877 | 275 |
| 2023 | #5,126 | 25 | #851 | 284 |
| 2022 | #6,464 | 18 | #857 | 282 |
| 2021 | #4,413 | 31 | #937 | 241 |
| 2020 | #4,169 | 33 | #907 | 246 |
| 2019 | #4,653 | 29 | #981 | 217 |
| 2018 | #4,889 | 27 | #1,079 | 183 |
| 2017 | #4,220 | 34 | #910 | 234 |
| 2016 | #4,157 | 35 | #1,110 | 176 |
| 2015 | #6,236 | 20 | #998 | 204 |
| 2014 | #4,768 | 29 | #996 | 207 |
| 2013 | #4,243 | 34 | #1,075 | 174 |
| 2012 | #4,486 | 32 | #1,407 | 118 |
| 2011 | #6,335 | 20 | #1,183 | 149 |
| 2010 | #4,180 | 35 | #1,219 | 145 |
| 2009 | #5,378 | 26 | #1,347 | 128 |
| 2008 | #5,279 | 27 | #1,655 | 93 |
| 2007 | #5,526 | 25 | #1,516 | 104 |
| 2006 | #5,906 | 22 | #1,769 | 78 |
| 2005 | #4,581 | 29 | #2,960 | 35 |
| 2004 | #5,744 | 21 | #2,788 | 37 |
| 2003 | #4,668 | 27 | #3,838 | 22 |
| 2002 | #4,179 | 30 | #2,882 | 32 |
| 2001 | #4,834 | 24 | #4,302 | 18 |
| 2000 | #3,983 | 31 | #5,040 | 14 |
| 1999 | #4,313 | 26 | #5,317 | 12 |
| 1998 | #5,363 | 19 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #5,626 | 17 | #9,265 | 5 |
| 1996 | #4,306 | 24 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 | — | |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | — | |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | — | |
| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #8,117 | 5 |
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| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ayan! It came in at #5,464, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1990, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ayan is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New York#467 · 1 in 2,869
- New Jersey#535 · 1 in 3,404
- Maryland#541 · 1 in 2,945
- Massachusetts#554 · 1 in 4,117
- Virginia#711 · 1 in 5,094
Best ever in a state: #317 in Connecticut, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #467 | 34 | 1 in 2,869 |
| New Jersey | #535 | 12 | 1 in 3,404 |
| Maryland | #541 | 9 | 1 in 2,945 |
| Massachusetts | #554 | 7 | 1 in 4,117 |
| Virginia | #711 | 8 | 1 in 5,094 |
| Ohio | #748 | 11 | 1 in 5,305 |
| Wisconsin | #758 | 5 | 1 in 5,198 |
| North Carolina | #787 | 9 | 1 in 5,703 |
| Illinois | #791 | 11 | 1 in 5,630 |
| Georgia | #799 | 10 | 1 in 5,369 |
| Texas | #888 | 24 | 1 in 7,340 |
| Florida | #917 | 13 | 1 in 7,436 |
| Pennsylvania | #945 | 7 | 1 in 8,315 |
| California | #1,012 | 21 | 1 in 10,272 |
| Michigan | #1,106 | 5 | 1 in 9,285 |
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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 Ayan
- 115 spots since 2024 (#877 → #762)
- 145 spots since 2020 (#907 → #762)
- 236 spots since 2015 (#998 → #762)
- Biggest jump: 200 spots in 2017 (#1,110 → #910)
- Biggest drop: 169 spots in 2018 (#910 → #1,079)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2025 at #762 (338 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2019–2025
- Highest: 1 in 5,053 boys born in 2025 were named Ayan (0.02%)
- 44.2% of all boys named Ayan (1,807) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2003, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #5,464 (1975) | #5,464 |
| 1980s | 5 | #7,270 (1988) | #7,270 |
| 1990s | 47 | #5,317 (1999) | #7,664 |
| 2000s | 561 | #1,347 (2009) | #2,810 |
| 2010s | 1,807 | #910 (2017) | #1,096 |
| 2020s | 1,666 | #762 (2025) | #865 |
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.
Ayan in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 50,778 of them was named Ayan, which outranked 77.1% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,147Wynne35
- #4,147Zelena35
- #4,147Zyonna35
- #4,220Ayan34
- #4,220Aela34
- #4,220Aeryn34
- #4,220Ailish34
- #4,304Aasiyah33
- #4,304Addisen33
- #4,304Aeva33
Tied with 83 names at #4,220; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 7,910 of them was named Ayan, which outranked 93.6% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #907Kamryn236
- #907Van236
- #909Mustafa235
- #910Ayan234
- #910Achilles234
- #910Benton234
- #910Blaise234
- #916Wells233
- #917Channing232
- #917Dilan232
Tied with 5 names at #910; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.