Yazan
Yazan was given to 190 boys in 2025, #1,127 among boys’ names; 2,032 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,010 Americans named Yazan 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 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yazan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yazan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Yazan is “a transliteration of the Arabic male given name يازن.”
Transliteration of Arabic يازن.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yazan?
#1,127 among boys’ names, 2025
Yazan rose from #1,654 in 2015 to #1,127 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.05 to 0.11 per 1,000.
190 babies in 2025, the peak
Yazan peaked in 2025, when 190 boys were given it, #1,127 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 175 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 190 | #1,127 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 175 | #1,185 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 137 | #1,367 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 103 | #1,677 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 97 | #1,699 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 77 | #1,921 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 77 | #1,934 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 85 | #1,807 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 79 | #1,870 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 83 | #1,827 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 96 | #1,654 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 72 | #1,998 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,162 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 53 | #2,412 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 43 | #2,794 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 52 | #2,427 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 51 | #2,522 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 28 | #3,816 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 42 | #2,863 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 31 | #3,447 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 27 | #3,606 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 35 | #2,947 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,271 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 31 | #3,012 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 45 | #2,272 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 29 | #3,067 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,271 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 26 | #3,087 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 28 | #2,815 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,176 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 16 | #4,040 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,585 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 16 | #4,011 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,641 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,215 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,801 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,211 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #8,120 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,557 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,217 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yazan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yazan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yazan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yazan, and how old are they?
2,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,032 Americans ever recorded as Yazan. The median Yazan alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 1,643 people named Yazan (8 women and girls, 1,635 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,259 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 119 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 566 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,320 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Yazan born?
The states with the most babies named Yazan are New York, California and Michigan, with 49% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 35 | #480 | 1.7× |
| California | 21 | #1,037 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 19 | #459 | 2.0× |
| Texas | 18 | #1,216 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 13 | #585 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,019 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,617 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,141 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,091 | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,016 | 1.0× |
Where Yazan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yazan is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1983 it was given 2.0 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 Yazan 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,561 babies since 1880, Yazan is the most given (79% of them). In 2025 it was given to 190 of their 214 babies (89%), 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 Yazan
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 Yazan and names like it
- Compare Yazan and YazenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYazan peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yazan since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Yazan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yazan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.