Jahn
Jahn was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 385 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jahn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jahn mean?
Wiktionary, Norwegian Bokmål section
Jahn is “a male given name from Dutch [in turn from Latin, in turn from Koine Greek, in turn from Biblical Hebrew] or from West Frisian [in turn from Latin, in turn from Koine Greek, in turn from Biblical Hebrew], variant of Jan, equivalent to English John”
/jɑːn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Norwegian Bokmål section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jahn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,487, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 2005, the peak
Jahn peaked in 2005, when 16 boys were given it, #5,130 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #11,487 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,991 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,901 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,849 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,866 | 5.6 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,067 | 2.7 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,113 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,751 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,235 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,292 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 6 | #11,553 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,595 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,819 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,119 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,130 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,710 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,015 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,954 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,805 | 6.2 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,170 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,915 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,864 | 2.7 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,289 | 5.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,305 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,850 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,804 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,356 | 3.0 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,425 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,621 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,965 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,670 | 4.5 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,156 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,831 | 3.4 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,351 | 3.7 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,526 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,355 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,756 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,170 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,783 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,157 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,610 | 6.7 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,699 | 3.2 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,949 | 4.5 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,935 | 4.4 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,833 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,711 | 2.8 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,954 | 2.7 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,653 | 4.4 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,472 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jahn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jahn has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jahn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jahn, and how old are they?
An estimated 351 Americans named Jahn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 18 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 580 people named Jahn (70 women and girls, 510 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 338 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 82,712 babies since 1880, Jahn is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 155 babies recorded by SSA was a Jahn (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jahn
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 Jahn and names like it
- Compare Jahn and JanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJahn peaked in 2005.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jahn since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Jahn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Jahn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jahn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.