Trajan
Last seen for boys in 2024 at #7,257
- Peak · boys
- 1999 · 141 births
- Debut · boys
- 14 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 787since 1994
Trajan over time
Rank among boys' names. Trajan has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | #7,257 | 11 |
| 2023 | #7,738 | 10 |
| 2022 | #6,147 | 14 |
| 2021 | #7,089 | 11 |
| 2020 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #7,643 | 10 |
| 2018 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2017 | #4,935 | 19 |
| 2016 | #6,726 | 12 |
| 2015 | #5,289 | 17 |
| 2014 | #5,997 | 14 |
| 2013 | #3,582 | 29 |
| 2012 | #5,035 | 18 |
| 2011 | #3,885 | 26 |
| 2010 | #3,633 | 29 |
| 2009 | #3,639 | 29 |
| 2008 | #3,486 | 31 |
| 2007 | #3,135 | 36 |
| 2006 | #2,784 | 41 |
| 2005 | #5,034 | 16 |
| 2004 | #4,421 | 19 |
| 2003 | #3,443 | 26 |
| 2002 | #2,943 | 31 |
| 2001 | #2,117 | 49 |
| 2000 | #2,330 | 41 |
| 1999 | #996 | 141 |
| 1998 | #2,235 | 40 |
| 1997 | #4,668 | 13 |
| 1996 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #5,501 | 10 |
| 1994 | #4,290 | 14 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Trajan! It came in at #4,290, and was given to 14 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2025, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Trajan is popular in 2007
No state had 5 or more boys named Trajan in 2007, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Trajan
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Biggest jump: 1,239 spots in 1999 (#2,235 → #996)
- Biggest drop: 1,334 spots in 2000 (#996 → #2,330)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 1999 at #996 (141 births)
- Births halved by 2000, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1999
- Highest: 1 in 13,618 boys born in 1999 were named Trajan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 156,626 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
- 40.5% of all boys named Trajan (319) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 226 | #996 (1999) | #4,031 |
| 2000s | 319 | #2,117 (2001) | #3,333 |
| 2010s | 188 | #3,582 (2013) | #5,276 |
| 2020s | 54 | #6,147 (2022) | #7,394 |
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.
Trajan in 2007
Top boys' names in 2007
More about 2007
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2,075,414 boys got a published name in 2007; 1 in 57,650 of them was named Trajan, which outranked 78.2% of the 14,394 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,090Zacharie37
- #3,090Zakery37
- #3,090Zakk37
- #3,135Trajan36
- #3,135Aayden36
- #3,135Adrain36
- #3,135Alaric36
- #3,188Akira35
- #3,188Anay35
- #3,188Artem35
Tied with 52 names at #3,135; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.