Marjan
Marjan was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,166 among girls’ names; 269 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marjan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marjan mean?
Wiktionary, Dutch section
Marjan is “a female given name”
Blend of Marie + An.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Dutch section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marjan?
#8,166 among girls’ names, 2025
Marjan entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #8,166 in 2025.
16 babies in 2022, the peak
Marjan peaked in 2022, when 16 girls were given it, #7,172 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 81% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,166 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,793 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,383 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,172 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,809 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,993 | 4.3 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,269 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,515 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,832 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,297 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #16,083 | 3.4 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,243 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,401 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,548 | 7.1 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,940 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,423 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,013 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,648 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,218 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,167 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,285 | 4.0 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,735 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,513 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,810 | 4.2 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,933 | 3.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,345 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,325 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,167 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,753 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,245 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,849 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,833 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,731 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,817 | 3.7 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,042 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marjan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marjan has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marjan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marjan, and how old are they?
An estimated 262 Americans named Marjan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 8 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,701 people named Marjan (1,394 women and girls, 307 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 201 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8.5 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,397 babies since 1880, Marjan is the fourth most given (7.9% 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 Marjan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1940-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Ambar | 3,031 |
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 Marjan and names like it
- Compare Marjan and MarjeanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMarjan peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marjan since 1910.
- Dutch namesWiktionary’s origin for Marjan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Marjan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Marjan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.