Yan

Where Yan comes from

The dictionaries list Yan as a given name — a male given name, equivalent to English John — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 1 syllable
Along the way
  1. 1971
    First appearance
    #4,907 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2025
    Peak, #2,363
    58 babies named Yan — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name, equivalent to English John.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Yan hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.