Subhan
Subhan was given to 63 boys in 2025, #2,251 among boys’ names; 847 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Subhan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Subhan?
#2,251 among boys’ names, 2025
Subhan rose from #3,292 in 2015 to #2,251 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 18.3 to 36.9 per million.
65 babies in 2023, the peak
Subhan peaked in 2023, when 65 boys were given it, #2,217 among boys’ names. The 63 births of 2025 are 97% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #2,251 | 36.9 |
| 2024 | 46 | #2,823 | 26.7 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,217 | 38.0 |
| 2022 | 49 | #2,708 | 28.1 |
| 2021 | 31 | #3,634 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,125 | 21.4 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,182 | 20.6 |
| 2018 | 60 | #2,278 | 33.0 |
| 2017 | 44 | #2,791 | 23.8 |
| 2016 | 43 | #2,830 | 22.7 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #3,292 | 18.3 |
| 2014 | 42 | #2,838 | 21.9 |
| 2013 | 37 | #3,049 | 19.6 |
| 2012 | 41 | #2,896 | 21.6 |
| 2011 | 22 | #4,485 | 11.6 |
| 2010 | 26 | #3,975 | 13.6 |
| 2009 | 27 | #3,901 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,515 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,617 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,404 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,569 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,971 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,740 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,878 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,862 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,889 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 9 | #7,025 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,451 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Subhan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Subhan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Subhan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Subhan, and how old are they?
An estimated 839 Americans named Subhan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 648 people named Subhan (7 women and girls, 641 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 561 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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).
Where are babies named Subhan born?
The states with the most babies named Subhan are California, Texas and Washington, with 73% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 14 | #1,354 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 10 | #1,735 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 9 | #727 | 0.5× |
| New York | 6 | #1,733 | 2.2× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,073 | 2.8× |
Where Subhan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Subhan is most over-represented in New York: since 1998 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Subhan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 900 babies since 1880, Subhan is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 63 of their 63 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Subhan
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 Subhan and names like it
- Compare Subhan and SubhaanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSubhan peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Subhan since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Subhan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Subhan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.