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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Virginia#351 · 1 in 1,620
- Michigan#445 · 1 in 2,115
- New York#455 · 1 in 2,282
- Maryland#475 · 1 in 2,290
- New Jersey#488 · 1 in 2,651
Best ever in a state: #317 in Connecticut, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Virginia | #351 | 23 | 1 in 1,620 |
| Michigan | #445 | 19 | 1 in 2,115 |
| New York | #455 | 37 | 1 in 2,282 |
| Maryland | #475 | 10 | 1 in 2,290 |
| New Jersey | #488 | 15 | 1 in 2,651 |
| Illinois | #513 | 19 | 1 in 2,608 |
| California | #602 | 49 | 1 in 3,581 |
| Pennsylvania | #605 | 15 | 1 in 3,484 |
| Massachusetts | #620 | 7 | 1 in 3,860 |
| Georgia | #673 | 14 | 1 in 3,587 |
| Washington | #684 | 9 | 1 in 3,644 |
| Kentucky | #708 | 5 | 1 in 4,107 |
| Texas | #749 | 36 | 1 in 4,863 |
| Ohio | #750 | 11 | 1 in 4,776 |
| North Carolina | #936 | 8 | 1 in 6,434 |
| Tennessee | #1,040 | 5 | 1 in 7,354 |
| Florida | #1,056 | 12 | 1 in 7,961 |
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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 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 69,881 of them was named Ayan, which outranked 68.7% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #5,238Zeya24
- #5,238Zhara24
- #5,238Zimal24
- #5,410Ayan23
- #5,410Aadhira23
- #5,410Aasiyah23
- #5,410Adair23
- #5,554Aamina22
- #5,554Abigael22
- #5,554Abigale22
Tied with 143 names at #5,410; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 5,053 of them was named Ayan, which outranked 94.5% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.