Jahan
Jahan is given to both girls and boys: 7 girls and 42 boys were given it in 2025 (#12,430 among girls’ names and #2,956 among boys’, #5,697 among all names counting both); 877 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jahan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jahan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jahan is “a transliteration of the Persian unisex given name جهان (jahân).”
From Persian جهان (jahân).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jahan?
#2,956 among boys’ names, 2025
Jahan rose from #9,077 in 2015 to #2,956 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 24.6 per million.
49 babies in 2025, the peak
Jahan peaked in 2025, when 49 babies were given it (42 boys, #2,956 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 37 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #2,956 | 24.6 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,239 | 21.5 |
| 2023 | 32 | #3,587 | 18.7 |
| 2022 | 32 | #3,560 | 18.3 |
| 2021 | 30 | #3,680 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 27 | #3,860 | 15.6 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,939 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 42 | #2,858 | 23.1 |
| 2017 | 32 | #3,477 | 17.3 |
| 2016 | 22 | #4,528 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #9,077 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,948 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 25 | #4,001 | 13.2 |
| 2012 | 20 | #4,765 | 10.5 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,566 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,496 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,207 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,203 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,879 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,395 | 7.8 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,129 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,192 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,129 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,841 | 11.3 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,231 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,662 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,219 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,612 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,860 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,321 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,918 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,624 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,513 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,511 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,687 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,062 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,376 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,569 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,149 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 11 | #3,977 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,874 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,548 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,727 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,772 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,705 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,830 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,919 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,702 | 6.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,881 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,292 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,243 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jahan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 877 Americans recorded as Jahan, 5% are girls and 95% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jahan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jahan, and how old are they?
An estimated 858 Americans named Jahan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 967 people named Jahan (247 women and girls, 720 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 656 born in the U.S. The Census count is 47% 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.
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 6,219 babies since 1880, Jahan is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 49 of their 135 babies (36%), the 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 Jahan
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 Jahan and names like it
- Compare Jahan and JajuanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jahan since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Jahan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jahan alive today were born 2013-2025.
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