An
An is given to both girls and boys: 36 girls and 25 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,982 among girls’ names and #4,141 among boys’, #4,901 among all names counting both); 2,519 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,460 Americans named An and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 11 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of An by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does An mean?
Wiktionary, Vietnamese section
An is “a unisex given name from Chinese”
Sino-Vietnamese word from 安.
[ʔaːn˧˧]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Vietnamese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is An?
#3,982 among girls’ names, 2025
An fell from #3,393 in 2015 to #3,982 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 26.3 to 22.4 per million.
73 babies in 2016, the peak
An peaked in 2016, when 73 babies were given it (46 girls, #3,418 among girls’ names). The 61 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 84% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,982 | 25 | #4,141 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,390 | 24 | #4,326 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,766 | 22 | #4,610 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,301 | 21 | #4,707 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,242 | 18 | #5,116 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,014 | 26 | #3,919 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,441 | 28 | #3,797 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,680 | 30 | #3,606 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,586 | 29 | #3,676 |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,418 | 27 | #3,885 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #3,393 | 24 | #4,184 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,360 | 32 | #3,376 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,339 | 26 | #3,866 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,717 | 17 | #5,258 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,924 | 23 | #4,229 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,414 | 16 | #5,492 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,947 | 16 | #5,566 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,020 | 18 | #5,071 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,571 | 26 | #3,899 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,723 | 17 | #5,082 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,588 | 26 | #3,621 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,825 | 21 | #4,131 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,312 | 26 | #3,442 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,456 | 24 | #3,554 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,837 | 17 | #4,480 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,798 | 24 | #3,423 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,637 | 16 | #4,344 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,802 | 29 | #2,786 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,017 | 32 | #2,498 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,585 | 24 | #3,020 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,849 | 23 | #3,020 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,686 | 29 | #2,552 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,776 | 23 | #2,940 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,501 | 28 | #2,531 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,440 | 24 | #2,749 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,063 | 21 | #2,950 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,781 | 21 | #2,903 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,173 | 25 | #2,364 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,627 | 25 | #2,269 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,194 | 23 | #2,364 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,624 | 29 | #1,974 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,531 | 25 | #2,098 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,555 | 25 | #2,087 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,724 | 24 | #2,165 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,537 | 16 | #2,781 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,336 | 15 | #2,967 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,340 | 15 | #2,903 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,405 | 8 | #4,163 |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,910 | 8 | #4,180 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,061 | 8 | #4,026 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,866 | 7 | #4,334 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,504 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,832 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,720 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,638 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,123 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 10 | #3,937 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,750 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,848 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,436 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is An a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,519 Americans recorded as An, 55% are girls and 45% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named An: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named An, and how old are they?
2,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,519 Americans ever recorded as An. The median An alive today is 22 years old; half are between 11 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 10,800 people named An (4,991 women and girls, 5,809 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,153 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.0 times 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 38 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 118 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 716 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 795 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 788 |
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 An born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 16 | #2,407 | 0.7× |
| California | 14 | #2,108 | 2.0× |
Where An is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, An is most over-represented in California: since 1946 it was given 2.0 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 girls’ 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 An 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 476,695 babies since 1880, An is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 61 of their 320 babies (19%), again the second 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 An
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1940-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Josey | 4,248 |
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 An and names like it
- Compare An and AnnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAn peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named An since 1910.
- Chinese namesWiktionary’s origin for An: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named An.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named An alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.