Burhan
Burhan was given to 19 boys in 2025, #5,065 among boys’ names; 281 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Burhan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Burhan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Burhan is “a male given name from Arabic.” Its etymology gives the sense “proof” (بُرْهَان).
From Arabic بُرْهَان (burhān, “proof”), an epithet of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Burhan?
#5,065 among boys’ names, 2025
Burhan rose from #5,543 in 2015 to #5,065 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 8.3 to 11.1 per million.
19 babies in 2025, the peak
Burhan peaked in 2025, when 19 boys were given it, #5,065 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 12 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #5,065 | 11.1 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,893 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,039 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,538 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,592 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,744 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,903 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,351 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,371 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,680 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #5,543 | 8.3 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,609 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,247 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,584 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,140 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,290 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,117 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,148 | 6.3 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,604 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,789 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,571 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,416 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,915 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,092 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,604 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,688 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Burhan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Burhan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Burhan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Burhan, and how old are they?
An estimated 278 Americans named Burhan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 702 people named Burhan (8 women and girls, 694 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 202 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.5 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,015 babies since 1880, Burhan is the second most given (28% 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 Burhan
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 Burhan and names like it
- Compare Burhan and BurenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBurhan peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Burhan since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Burhan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Burhan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Burhan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.