Aslan
Aslan was given to 280 boys in 2025, #860 among boys’ names; 1,810 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,790 Americans named Aslan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 2 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aslan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aslan mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Aslan is “a male given name”
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آصلان. From aslan (“lion”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aslan?
#860 among boys’ names, 2025
Aslan rose from #2,866 in 2015 to #860 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.02 to 0.16 per 1,000.
280 babies in 2025, the peak
Aslan peaked in 2025, when 280 boys were given it, #860 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 210 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 280 | #860 | 0.16 |
| 2024 | 210 | #1,050 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 175 | #1,172 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 138 | #1,353 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 94 | #1,725 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,001 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,232 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 71 | #2,030 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,189 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 49 | #2,555 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #2,866 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 42 | #2,807 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 37 | #3,002 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 35 | #3,181 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 41 | #2,856 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 31 | #3,461 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 29 | #3,645 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 37 | #3,108 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 36 | #3,136 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 51 | #2,405 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,637 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,013 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,728 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,085 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 9 | #6,969 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,485 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,681 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,491 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,373 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,535 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #7,846 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,701 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,681 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,526 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #4,874 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aslan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,810 Americans recorded as Aslan, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 280 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Aslan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aslan, and how old are they?
1,790 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,810 Americans ever recorded as Aslan. The median Aslan alive today is 6 years old; half are between 2 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 1,032 people named Aslan (127 women and girls, 905 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 846 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 14 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 25 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 387 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,370 |
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 Aslan born?
The states with the most babies named Aslan are Texas, Florida and California, with 49% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 39 | #708 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 38 | #478 | 1.3× |
| California | 35 | #746 | 0.8× |
| New York | 26 | #585 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 15 | #609 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #632 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 13 | #545 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 8 | #726 | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 8 | #996 | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 8 | #802 | 0.2× |
Where Aslan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aslan is most over-represented in Florida: since 1979 it was given 1.3 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 Aslan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aslan
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 Aslan and names like it
- Compare Aslan and NakoaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aslan since 1910.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Aslan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Aslan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aslan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.