Bijan
Last seen for girls in 1996 at #13,518 · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to boys 97.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1991 · 65 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 998since 1968
Bijan over time
Rank among boys' names. Bijan has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | — | #8,910 | 8 | |
| 2024 | — | #7,765 | 10 | |
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | — | #10,863 | 6 | |
| 2021 | — | — | ||
| 2020 | — | #10,605 | 6 | |
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| 2016 | — | #7,605 | 10 | |
| 2015 | — | #10,644 | 6 | |
| 2014 | — | #8,130 | 9 | |
| 2013 | — | #12,136 | 5 | |
| 2012 | — | #7,559 | 10 | |
| 2011 | — | #7,502 | 10 | |
| 2010 | — | #12,231 | 5 | |
| 2009 | — | #9,864 | 7 | |
| 2008 | — | #7,187 | 11 | |
| 2007 | — | #7,590 | 10 | |
| 2006 | — | #6,904 | 11 | |
| 2005 | — | #4,631 | 18 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,534 | 26 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,877 | 12 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,349 | 26 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,228 | 27 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,150 | 27 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,939 | 28 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,552 | 33 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,964 | 46 | |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #2,535 | 30 |
| 1995 | — | #1,988 | 42 | |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #1,822 | 47 |
| 1993 | — | #1,512 | 61 | |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #1,525 | 58 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #1,411 | 65 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | #1,809 | 43 |
| 1989 | — | #1,492 | 55 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,706 | 41 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,169 | 27 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,290 | 24 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,116 | 26 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,842 | 30 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,085 | 25 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,709 | 17 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,221 | 13 | |
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| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
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| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
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| 1968 | — | #3,673 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Bijan! It came in at #3,673, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1971, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Bijan is popular in 1993
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#793 · 1 in 11,976
- New York#1,469 · 1 in 25,774
Best ever in a state: #753 in California, 1989.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #793 | 23 | 1 in 11,976 |
| New York | #1,469 | 5 | 1 in 25,774 |
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See more about Bijan
- 1,145 spots since 2024 (#7,765 → #8,910)
- 1,695 spots since 2020 (#10,605 → #8,910)
- 1,734 spots since 2015 (#10,644 → #8,910)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1991 at #1,411 (65 births)
- Births halved by 1996, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 31,082 boys born in 1991 were named Bijan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 45.4% of all boys named Bijan (453) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 6 | #3,673 (1968) | #3,673 |
| 1970s | 21 | #4,441 (1972) | #5,343 |
| 1980s | 258 | #1,492 (1989) | #2,181 |
| 1990s | 453 | #1,411 (1991) | #2,006 |
| 2000s | 175 | #3,150 (2000) | #5,531 |
| 2010s | 55 | #7,502 (2011) | #9,401 |
| 2020s | 30 | #7,765 (2024) | #9,536 |
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.
Bijan in 1993
Top boys' names in 1993
More about 1993
boys
1,961,328 boys got a published name in 1993; 1 in 32,153 of them was named Bijan, which outranked 85.1% of the 10,170 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,493Shaquill62
- #1,493Stephanie62
- #1,493Woodrow62
- #1,512Bijan61
- #1,512Ajay61
- #1,512Benedict61
- #1,512Delbert61
- #1,524Carmelo60
- #1,524Eder60
- #1,524Geovanny60
Tied with 11 names at #1,512; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.