Afnan
#3,389 for girls in 2025, 45 births · #5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
Given to girls 77.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 45 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 670since 1985
Afnan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,389 | 45 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 2024 | #3,459 | 45 | #6,832 | 12 |
| 2023 | #4,114 | 35 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #4,793 | 28 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #3,614 | 42 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #5,850 | 20 | #6,620 | 12 |
| 2019 | #4,546 | 30 | #7,643 | 10 |
| 2018 | #5,619 | 22 | #5,106 | 18 |
| 2017 | #4,576 | 30 | #6,338 | 13 |
| 2016 | #5,622 | 23 | #5,789 | 15 |
| 2015 | #4,981 | 27 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 | — | |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 | — | |
| 2011 | #8,196 | 14 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #5,602 | 24 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 | — | |
| 2008 | #7,073 | 18 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #7,733 | 16 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #8,715 | 13 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #8,259 | 13 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 | — | |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 | — | |
| 1999 | #5,424 | 19 | — | |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | — | |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | — | |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | — | |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | — | |
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| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | — | |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 | — | |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Afnan! It came in at #10,677, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1985–1987, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Afnan
- 70 spots since 2024 (#3,459 → #3,389)
- 2,461 spots since 2020 (#5,850 → #3,389)
- 1,592 spots since 2015 (#4,981 → #3,389)
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 2025 at #3,389 (45 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 35,717 girls born in 2025 were named Afnan (0.00%)
- 33.3% of all girls named Afnan (223) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 12 | #9,244 (1988) | #9,961 |
| 1990s | 79 | #5,424 (1999) | #8,987 |
| 2000s | 141 | #6,811 (2009) | #8,110 |
| 2010s | 223 | #4,546 (2019) | #5,982 |
| 2020s | 215 | #3,389 (2025) | #4,203 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Afnan in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 45,845 of them was named Afnan, which outranked 76.6% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,047Zemirah36
- #4,047Zhamira36
- #4,047Zyah36
- #4,114Afnan35
- #4,114Aanvi35
- #4,114Addy35
- #4,114Adelaine35
- #4,191Alayia34
- #4,191Aliannah34
- #4,191Anapaula34
Tied with 76 names at #4,114; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 155,507 of them was named Afnan, which outranked 48.7% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,897Zeid12
- #6,897Zoe12
- #6,897Zyonn12
- #7,289Afnan11
- #7,289Aadhav11
- #7,289Aadit11
- #7,289Aadyn11
- #7,738Aadam10
- #7,738Aalijah10
- #7,738Aari10
Tied with 448 names at #7,289; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.