Vahan
Vahan was last recorded in 2024, when 12 babies were given it; 211 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 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 Vahan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vahan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Vahan is “a transliteration of the Armenian male given name Վահան (Vahan).”
From Armenian Վահան (Vahan).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vahan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,221, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 2024, the peak
Vahan peaked in 2024, when 12 boys were given it, #7,221 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12 | #7,221 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,723 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #12,210 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,923 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,919 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,728 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,952 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 6 | #12,134 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 6 | #12,070 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,906 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 9 | #8,730 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,648 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,679 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | #12,182 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 5 | #14,122 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,968 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,381 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,520 | 3.5 |
| 1999 | 9 | #7,091 | 4.7 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,749 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 5 | #10,168 | 2.6 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,485 | 4.0 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,887 | 3.5 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,204 | 3.4 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,505 | 4.6 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,115 | 5.4 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,789 | 4.5 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,379 | 7.2 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,840 | 6.2 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,273 | 5.5 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,130 | 6.1 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,548 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Vahan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vahan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vahan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vahan, and how old are they?
An estimated 161 Americans named Vahan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 753 people named Vahan (7 women and girls, 746 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 129 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.8 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 33,710 babies since 1880, Vahan is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 281 babies recorded by SSA was a Vahan (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.
More about Vahan and names like it
- Compare Vahan and VanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vahan since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Vahan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Vahan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.