Bijan
Bijan was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,024 among boys’ names; 1,027 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bijan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bijan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bijan is “a male given name from Persian.”
Borrowed from Persian بیژن.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bijan?
#9,024 among boys’ names, 2025
Bijan rose from #10,833 in 2015 to #9,024 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 4.7 per million.
71 babies in 1991, the peak
Bijan peaked in 1991, when 71 babies were given it (65 boys, #1,405 among boys’ names). The 8 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,024 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,843 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,049 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,772 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,665 | 5.3 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,833 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,216 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,372 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,611 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,570 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | #12,458 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #9,988 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,243 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,655 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 11 | #6,964 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,645 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,541 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 12 | #5,909 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 26 | #3,354 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 27 | #3,231 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 27 | #3,151 | 13.7 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,944 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 33 | #2,555 | 17.3 |
| 1997 | 46 | #1,965 | 24.4 |
| 1996 | 30 | #2,535 | 15.8 |
| 1995 | 42 | #1,985 | 22.1 |
| 1994 | 47 | #1,820 | 24.3 |
| 1993 | 61 | #1,509 | 31.1 |
| 1992 | 58 | #1,521 | 29.0 |
| 1991 | 65 | #1,405 | 32.2 |
| 1990 | 43 | #1,807 | 20.9 |
| 1989 | 55 | #1,490 | 27.5 |
| 1988 | 41 | #1,706 | 21.4 |
| 1987 | 27 | #2,169 | 14.5 |
| 1986 | 24 | #2,296 | 13.0 |
| 1985 | 26 | #2,120 | 14.1 |
| 1984 | 30 | #1,843 | 16.6 |
| 1983 | 25 | #2,090 | 13.9 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,717 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,235 | 7.3 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,143 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 5 | #5,883 | 3.0 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,175 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,489 | 3.7 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,715 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bijan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,027 Americans recorded as Bijan, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 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 Bijan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bijan, and how old are they?
An estimated 989 Americans named Bijan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 26 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,949 people named Bijan (65 women and girls, 1,884 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 972 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times 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.
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 Bijan born?
The states with the most babies named Bijan are California, New York and Florida, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 321 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| New York | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 18 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Bijan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bijan is most over-represented in California: since 1968 it was given 2.3 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 Bijan 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,127 babies since 1880, Bijan is the most given (91% of them).
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 Bijan
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 Bijan and names like it
- Compare Bijan and BijonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBijan peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bijan since 1910.
- Persian namesWiktionary’s origin for Bijan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Bijan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Bijan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.