Syan
Syan was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 160 Americans have been recorded with it between 1997 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 Syan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Syan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,249, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1999, the peak
Syan peaked in 1999, when 16 girls were given it, #6,450 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | under 5 | 6 | #12,163 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 5 | #13,925 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 7 | #10,707 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 6 | #11,950 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 6 | #12,040 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 8 | #9,447 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 5 | #13,804 | |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,249 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,735 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,541 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 8 | #13,670 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,372 | 8 | #9,655 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,711 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,868 | 6 | #11,281 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,658 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,271 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,320 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,663 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,450 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,849 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Syan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 160 Americans recorded as Syan, 64% are girls and 36% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Syan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Syan, and how old are they?
An estimated 158 Americans named Syan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 216 people named Syan (131 women and girls, 85 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 135 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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).
How common is the spelling Syan?
Syan is a less common spelling of Cyan: SSA has recorded 160 Syan and 1,520 Cyan since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,001 babies since 1880, Syan is the fourth most given (5.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 77 babies recorded by SSA was a Syan (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 Syan
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 Syan and names like it
- Compare Syan and CyanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sSyan peaked in 1999.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Syan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Syan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.