Nhan — boys' name
361 babies named Nhan in U.S. Social Security records since 1979, with the highest year being 1988. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
35% of everyone ever named Nhan was born in this single decade.
19 babies were named Nhan in 1988 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Nhan
The Social Security Administration has registered 361 babies named Nhan between 1979 and 2019, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nhan currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 19 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Nhan performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 126 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Nhan shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 49 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Nhan in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Nhan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 361 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Nhan at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Nhan popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1979
- Peak year (1988)
- 19
- Annual births at peak — across 41 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
361 total births across 41 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1988 with 19 births in a single year.
Nhan popularity over time — girls
5 total births recorded since 1985 (Nhan as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Nhan accounts for 1% of total recorded use across both genders.
Nhan by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 126 births that decade — 35% of Nhan's all-time total
Nhan decade highlights
- Peak decade 126 births
- Runner-up 99 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Nhan's strongest decade
126 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 35% of all-time use.
Nhan by state
Where Nhan concentrates geographically — total births since 1979
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 49 | 13.6% |
49 of 361 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 13.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 13.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1979–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.