Arjan
Arjan was given to 118 boys in 2025, #1,492 among boys’ names; 1,001 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arjan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Arjan mean?
Wiktionary, Dutch section
Arjan is “a male given name”
Derived from Latin Adrianus.
/ˈɑr.jɑn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Dutch section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Arjan?
#1,492 among boys’ names, 2025
Arjan rose from #3,785 in 2015 to #1,492 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 14.6 to 69.1 per million.
118 babies in 2025, the peak
Arjan peaked in 2025, when 118 boys were given it, #1,492 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 106 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 118 | #1,492 | 69.1 |
| 2024 | 106 | #1,609 | 61.5 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,189 | 38.0 |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,117 | 40.1 |
| 2021 | 53 | #2,501 | 30.3 |
| 2020 | 43 | #2,805 | 24.9 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,102 | 21.2 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,108 | 20.4 |
| 2017 | 46 | #2,676 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 28 | #3,780 | 14.8 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,785 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 34 | #3,238 | 17.7 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,327 | 11.6 |
| 2012 | 28 | #3,716 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 32 | #3,368 | 16.8 |
| 2010 | 33 | #3,310 | 17.2 |
| 2009 | 34 | #3,275 | 17.1 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,547 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 22 | #4,384 | 10.6 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,229 | 10.7 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,586 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,261 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,284 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,562 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,565 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 11 | #5,941 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,564 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,643 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,178 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 5 | #8,952 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,474 | 5.2 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,161 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,184 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Arjan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arjan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arjan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arjan, and how old are they?
An estimated 991 Americans named Arjan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 3 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 952 people named Arjan (12 women and girls, 940 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 551 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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.
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 Arjan born?
The states with the most babies named Arjan are California, New York and Texas, with 85% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 52 | #572 | 3.0× |
| New York | 9 | #1,212 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 9 | #1,769 | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 7 | #777 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,031 | 0.6× |
Where Arjan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arjan is most over-represented in California: since 1990 it was given 3.0 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 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 Arjan 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 13,575 babies since 1880, Arjan is the second most given (7.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 118 of their 741 babies (16%), 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 Arjan
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 Arjan and names like it
- Compare Arjan and ArjunBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sArjan peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arjan since 1910.
- Dutch namesWiktionary’s origin for Arjan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Arjan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Arjan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.