Afnan — #3480 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Afnan

The Social Security Administration has registered 625 babies named Afnan between 1985 and 2024, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Afnan currently holds the #3480 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 45 babies received it in a single year. Afnan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 180 additional births since 2002.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Afnan performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 223 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Afnan shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Minnesota, which accounts for 42 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Afnan in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Afnan 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 625 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.