Aaryan
Aaryan was given to 74 boys in 2025, #2,020 among boys’ names; 2,155 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,140 Americans named Aaryan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aaryan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aaryan?
#2,020 among boys’ names, 2025
Aaryan fell from #1,381 in 2015 to #2,020 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 65.2 to 43.3 per million.
142 babies in 2016, the peak
Aaryan peaked in 2016, when 142 boys were given it, #1,279 among boys’ names. The 74 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74 | #2,020 | 43.3 |
| 2024 | 70 | #2,120 | 40.6 |
| 2023 | 92 | #1,765 | 53.8 |
| 2022 | 104 | #1,652 | 59.6 |
| 2021 | 112 | #1,554 | 64.0 |
| 2020 | 93 | #1,685 | 53.9 |
| 2019 | 119 | #1,459 | 66.3 |
| 2018 | 126 | #1,396 | 69.4 |
| 2017 | 123 | #1,413 | 66.5 |
| 2016 | 142 | #1,279 | 74.8 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 125 | #1,381 | 65.2 |
| 2014 | 104 | #1,536 | 54.1 |
| 2013 | 106 | #1,520 | 56.0 |
| 2012 | 94 | #1,636 | 49.6 |
| 2011 | 105 | #1,516 | 55.3 |
| 2010 | 88 | #1,724 | 45.9 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,049 | 33.8 |
| 2008 | 75 | #1,916 | 36.8 |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,016 | 33.2 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,081 | 30.7 |
| 2005 | 53 | #2,233 | 26.5 |
| 2004 | 53 | #2,189 | 26.7 |
| 2003 | 47 | #2,265 | 23.8 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,091 | 14.9 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,670 | 8.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aaryan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aaryan has been given almost only to boys: 6 girls in 25 years of records.
Girls and boys named Aaryan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aaryan, and how old are they?
2,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,155 Americans ever recorded as Aaryan. The median Aaryan alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 1,597 people named Aaryan (27 women and girls, 1,570 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,620 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 750 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,390 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aaryan born?
The states with the most babies named Aaryan are Texas, California and New Jersey, with 71% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #1,556 | 1.0× |
| California | 8 | #1,829 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #766 | 3.5× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,217 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,278 | 0.4× |
Where Aaryan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aaryan is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 2001 it was given 3.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aaryan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Aaryan?
Aaryan is a less common spelling of Aryan: SSA has recorded 2,155 Aaryan and 8,854 Aryan since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 642,834 babies since 1880, Aaryan is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 74 of their 4,740 babies (1.6%), again the fourth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aaryan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aaryan and names like it
- Compare Aaryan and AryanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAaryan peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aaryan since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Aaryan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aaryan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.