Aftan
Aftan was last recorded in 1991, when 5 babies were given it; 109 Americans have been recorded with it between 1981 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aftan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aftan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,173, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1983, the peak
Aftan peaked in 1983, when 23 girls were given it, #3,432 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 5 | #13,173 | 2.7 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,038 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,251 | 3.9 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,158 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,454 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,542 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,432 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,167 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,136 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aftan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aftan has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aftan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aftan, and how old are they?
An estimated 105 Americans named Aftan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 40 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 133 people named Aftan (121 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 106 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,591 babies since 1880, Aftan is the third most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 57 babies recorded by SSA was a Aftan (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Aftan
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 Aftan and names like it
- Compare Aftan and AftonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sAftan peaked in 1983.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Aftan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Aftan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.