Bayan
Bayan was given to 89 girls in 2025, #2,106 among girls’ names; 1,267 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,250 Americans named Bayan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bayan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bayan?
#2,106 among girls’ names, 2025
Bayan rose from #4,079 in 2015 to #2,106 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 20.2 to 55.4 per million.
89 babies in 2025, the peak
Bayan peaked in 2025, when 89 girls were given it, #2,106 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 78 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 89 | #2,106 | 55.4 |
| 2024 | 78 | #2,350 | 48.1 |
| 2023 | 51 | #3,192 | 31.8 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,701 | 39.0 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,444 | 27.4 |
| 2020 | 72 | #2,419 | 44.5 |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,092 | 31.0 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,442 | 26.5 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,489 | 25.5 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,662 | 23.7 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #4,079 | 20.2 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,195 | 19.6 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,916 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,730 | 13.1 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,371 | 18.8 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,684 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,918 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,177 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,969 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,370 | 17.4 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,862 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 26 | #4,955 | 14.2 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,629 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,277 | 12.2 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,600 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,663 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,244 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,647 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,842 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,306 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,698 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,010 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,117 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,565 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,470 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,557 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,105 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,494 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bayan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,267 Americans recorded as Bayan, 91% are girls and 9% boys. In 2025 it went to 89 girls; SSA lists no boys 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 Bayan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bayan, and how old are they?
1,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,267 Americans ever recorded as Bayan. The median Bayan alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,269 people named Bayan (1,050 women and girls, 219 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 869 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 139 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 408 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 707 |
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 Bayan born?
The states with the most babies named Bayan are New York, Michigan and Illinois, with 79% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 18 | #865 | 1.7× |
| Michigan | 17 | #489 | 3.4× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,136 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,059 | 0.3× |
| California | 5 | #3,178 | 0.4× |
Where Bayan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bayan is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1985 it was given 3.4 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 girls’ 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 Bayan 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 Bayan
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.
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