Ayan
Ayan was given to 338 boys in 2025, #762 among boys’ names; 4,942 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,900 Americans named Ayan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ayan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ayan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ayan is “a male given name.”
Meaning Eon in Arabic. May be related to the greek word Aeon.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ayan?
#762 among boys’ names, 2025
Ayan rose from #999 in 2015 to #762 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.11 to 0.20 per 1,000.
361 babies in 2025, the peak
Ayan peaked in 2025, when 361 babies were given it (338 boys, #762 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 275 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,428 | 338 | #762 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,641 | 275 | #877 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,143 | 284 | #851 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,491 | 282 | #857 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,420 | 241 | #937 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,185 | 246 | #907 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,666 | 217 | #981 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,901 | 183 | #1,079 |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,230 | 234 | #911 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,171 | 176 | #1,110 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,272 | 204 | #999 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,788 | 207 | #996 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,254 | 174 | #1,075 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,507 | 118 | #1,408 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,365 | 149 | #1,183 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,204 | 145 | #1,219 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,404 | 128 | #1,347 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,305 | 93 | #1,656 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,547 | 104 | #1,516 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,940 | 78 | #1,771 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,593 | 35 | #2,959 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,772 | 37 | #2,786 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,685 | 22 | #3,837 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,191 | 32 | #2,886 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,849 | 18 | #4,309 |
| 2000 | 31 | #3,989 | 14 | #5,056 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,322 | 12 | #5,339 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,387 | 6 | #8,571 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,653 | 5 | #9,390 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,315 | 8 | #6,542 |
| 1995 | 15 | #5,991 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,654 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,075 | 5 | #8,801 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,571 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 6 | #7,342 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,173 | 5 | #8,212 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #7,375 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,570 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #5,538 |
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 Ayan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,942 Americans recorded as Ayan, 17% are girls and 83% boys. In 2025 it went to 23 girls and 338 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ayan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ayan, and how old are they?
4,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,942 Americans ever recorded as Ayan. The median Ayan alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 4,622 people named Ayan (1,948 women and girls, 2,674 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,167 born in the U.S. The Census count is 46% 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 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 106 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,390 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,400 |
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 Ayan born?
The states with the most babies named Ayan are California, New York and Texas, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 49 | #602 | 0.9× |
| New York | 37 | #455 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 36 | #751 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 23 | #352 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 19 | #515 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 19 | #447 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 15 | #489 | 2.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #608 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 14 | #675 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,063 | 0.5× |
Where Ayan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ayan is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1975 it was given 2.1 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 Ayan 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 19,298 babies since 1880, Ayan is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 361 of their 1,323 babies (27%), 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 Ayan
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 Ayan and names like it
- Compare Ayan and AyaanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAyan peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ayan since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Ayan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ayan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.