Affan — #4379 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Affan

The Social Security Administration has registered 552 babies named Affan between 1998 and 2024, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Affan currently holds the #4379 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 55 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Affan performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 308 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Affan shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 59 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Affan in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Affan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 552 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.