Aylan
Aylan was given to 72 boys in 2025, #2,058 among boys’ names; 696 Americans have been recorded with it since 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aylan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aylan?
#2,058 among boys’ names, 2025
Aylan rose from #2,132 in 2015 to #2,058 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 33.9 to 42.2 per million.
96 babies in 2016, the peak
Aylan peaked in 2016, when 96 boys were given it, #1,655 among boys’ names. The 72 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,058 | 42.2 |
| 2024 | 45 | #2,836 | 26.1 |
| 2023 | 51 | #2,581 | 29.8 |
| 2022 | 55 | #2,493 | 31.5 |
| 2021 | 45 | #2,781 | 25.7 |
| 2020 | 50 | #2,549 | 29.0 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,233 | 34.6 |
| 2018 | 46 | #2,678 | 25.3 |
| 2017 | 74 | #1,939 | 40.0 |
| 2016 | 96 | #1,655 | 50.6 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 65 | #2,132 | 33.9 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,671 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,743 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,940 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,426 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 5 | #12,733 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aylan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aylan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aylan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aylan, and how old are they?
An estimated 691 Americans named Aylan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 10. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 403 people named Aylan (69 women and girls, 334 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 388 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 748,165 babies since 1880, Aylan is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 72 of their 2,822 babies (2.6%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Aylan
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 Aylan and names like it
- Compare Aylan and AlanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAylan peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aylan since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Aylan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aylan alive today were born 2013-2025.
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