Yan
Last seen for girls in 2017 at #15,902 · #2,363 for boys in 2025, 58 births
Given to boys 90.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 58 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 986since 1971
Yan 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 | — | #2,363 | 58 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,873 | 44 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,848 | 44 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,879 | 28 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,118 | 25 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,020 | 25 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,230 | 24 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,301 | 34 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #3,249 | 35 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #3,596 | 30 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #5,058 | 18 |
| 2014 | — | #3,617 | 29 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,463 | 21 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,131 | 24 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,885 | 26 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #3,812 | 27 |
| 2009 | — | #3,721 | 28 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,921 | 26 | |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #3,687 | 28 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | #3,227 | 33 |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #3,389 | 29 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #3,534 | 26 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #3,366 | 27 |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 | #3,349 | 26 |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #3,512 | 24 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 | #5,588 | 12 |
| 1999 | — | #5,317 | 12 | |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | — | #3,549 | 19 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,124 | 11 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,868 | 9 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,771 | 9 | |
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| 1990 | — | #4,407 | 12 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,618 | 15 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | — | #3,072 | 16 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,005 | 16 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,599 | 12 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,956 | 15 | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | — | #5,003 | 7 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,412 | 12 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,256 | 13 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,357 | 12 | |
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| 1977 | — | #4,582 | 7 | |
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| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yan! It came in at #4,907, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1976, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Yan is popular in 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Florida#1,256 · 1 in 10,469
- Illinois#1,285 · 1 in 10,032
- California#2,203 · 1 in 29,979
Best ever in a state: #1,021 in New York, 1996.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | #1,256 | 9 | 1 in 10,469 |
| Illinois | #1,285 | 5 | 1 in 10,032 |
| California | #2,203 | 6 | 1 in 29,979 |
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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 Yan
- 510 spots since 2024 (#2,873 → #2,363)
- 1,657 spots since 2020 (#4,020 → #2,363)
- 2,695 spots since 2015 (#5,058 → #2,363)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2025 at #2,363 (58 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 29,450 boys born in 2025 were named Yan (0.00%)
- 27.2% of all boys named Yan (268) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 24 | #3,357 (1979) | #4,282 |
| 1980s | 121 | #2,956 (1984) | #3,849 |
| 1990s | 90 | #3,549 (1996) | #5,306 |
| 2000s | 259 | #3,227 (2006) | #3,729 |
| 2010s | 268 | #3,249 (2017) | #3,934 |
| 2020s | 224 | #2,363 (2025) | #3,350 |
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.
Yan in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 38,877 of them was named Yan, which outranked 80.0% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,805Yared45
- #2,805Yassin45
- #2,805Zayyan45
- #2,848Yan44
- #2,848Aleister44
- #2,848Asai44
- #2,848Ayaansh44
- #2,895Abdallah43
- #2,895Abdurrahman43
- #2,895Abubakar43
Tied with 46 names at #2,848; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.