Ayaan
Ayaan was given to 664 boys in 2025, #465 among boys’ names; 9,154 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,080 Americans named Ayaan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ayaan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ayaan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ayaan is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ayaan?
#465 among boys’ names, 2025
Ayaan rose from #637 in 2015 to #465 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.22 to 0.39 per 1,000.
686 babies in 2025, the peak
Ayaan peaked in 2025, when 686 babies were given it (664 boys, #465 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 590 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 664 | #465 | 0.39 |
| 2024 | 590 | #519 | 0.34 |
| 2023 | 586 | #512 | 0.34 |
| 2022 | 528 | #562 | 0.30 |
| 2021 | 570 | #514 | 0.33 |
| 2020 | 645 | #460 | 0.37 |
| 2019 | 553 | #516 | 0.31 |
| 2018 | 530 | #532 | 0.29 |
| 2017 | 503 | #551 | 0.27 |
| 2016 | 424 | #630 | 0.22 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 416 | #637 | 0.22 |
| 2014 | 485 | #574 | 0.25 |
| 2013 | 388 | #638 | 0.21 |
| 2012 | 355 | #665 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 322 | #710 | 0.17 |
| 2010 | 296 | #759 | 0.15 |
| 2009 | 265 | #827 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 226 | #912 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 182 | #1,031 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 122 | #1,341 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 53 | #2,235 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 122 | #1,233 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,536 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,329 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,493 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,212 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ayaan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,154 Americans recorded as Ayaan, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 22 girls and 664 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ayaan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ayaan, and how old are they?
9,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,154 Americans ever recorded as Ayaan. The median Ayaan alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 5,093 people named Ayaan (236 women and girls, 4,857 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,602 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,090 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,990 |
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 Ayaan born?
The states with the most babies named Ayaan are California, Texas and New York, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 100 | #349 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 87 | #407 | 1.0× |
| New York | 74 | #261 | 2.1× |
| New Jersey | 41 | #233 | 2.9× |
| Illinois | 37 | #290 | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | #363 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 30 | #573 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 27 | #396 | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 25 | #329 | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 24 | #452 | 1.1× |
Where Ayaan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ayaan is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1995 it was given 2.9 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 Ayaan 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 19,260 babies since 1880, Ayaan is the most given (48% of them). In 2025 it was given to 686 of their 1,322 babies (52%), again the 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 Ayaan
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 Ayaan and names like it
- Compare Ayaan and AyanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAyaan peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ayaan since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Ayaan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ayaan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.