Trajan — #7432 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Trajan

The Social Security Administration has registered 787 babies named Trajan between 1994 and 2024, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Trajan currently holds the #7432 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 141 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Trajan performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 319 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Trajan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 36 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Trajan in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Trajan 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 787 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.