Aayan
Aayan was given to 108 boys in 2025, #1,571 among boys’ names; 2,676 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,650 Americans named Aayan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aayan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aayan?
#1,571 among boys’ names, 2025
Aayan fell from #1,253 in 2015 to #1,571 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 75.1 to 63.2 per million.
209 babies in 2019, the peak
Aayan peaked in 2019, when 209 boys were given it, #1,000 among boys’ names. The 108 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 108 | #1,571 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 140 | #1,355 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 151 | #1,271 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 161 | #1,220 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 168 | #1,170 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 195 | #1,039 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 209 | #1,000 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 167 | #1,151 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 180 | #1,086 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 170 | #1,134 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 144 | #1,253 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 139 | #1,276 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 94 | #1,623 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 94 | #1,637 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 57 | #2,260 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 96 | #1,626 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 110 | #1,510 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 79 | #1,838 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 108 | #1,477 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 84 | #1,684 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,092 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 7 | #8,922 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,665 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aayan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aayan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aayan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aayan, and how old are they?
2,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,676 Americans ever recorded as Aayan. The median Aayan alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 1,608 people named Aayan (20 women and girls, 1,588 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,788 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 643 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,010 |
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 Aayan born?
The states with the most babies named Aayan are Texas, New York and California, with 54% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14 | #1,347 | 1.0× |
| New York | 11 | #1,055 | 2.4× |
| California | 11 | #1,508 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,005 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,096 | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 6 | #703 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 6 | #999 | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,279 | 0.7× |
Where Aayan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aayan is most over-represented in New York: since 2002 it was given 2.4 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 Aayan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 19,260 babies since 1880, Aayan is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 108 of their 1,322 babies (8.2%), again the third 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 Aayan
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 Aayan and names like it
- Compare Aayan and AyaanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAayan peaked in 2019.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aayan since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Aayan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aayan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.